Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Further to my statement on education and the graduation season, my question is to the Minister of education on sponsoring and supporting the spirits of reconciliation and the improvements to the Education Act. Will the Minister assist my office in organizing a strategic planning session with Sahtu Divisional Board of Education? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member from the Sahtu. Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is my understanding that in 2019, so almost some years ago now, that the Sahtu leadership came together to discuss issues of education and a vision for the future of education in the region and that this led to a fiveyear strategic plan that will be expiring in June of 2025. So I appreciate the Member for bringing this forward because it sounds like the timing is right. And so if leadership from across the Sahtu decides to come together in an education conference next summer, I would be more than happy to attend and to listen in to this and have the opportunity to hear the concerns from the region. And I think it's also worth noting as well that in October of this year, the Sahtu education body will be coming together for a conference of their own and an inservice, and so it sounds like there's some potential for some good synergies happening around the same time here. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thanks to the Minister for recapping the efforts that we had accomplished in July of 2019. It was a very well attended strategy session on how to upgrade and develop a plan moving forward to support education, and I'm glad to hear that the Minister supports that as a starting point to update our education journey for the young folks of the Sahtu.
And will the Minister provide staff supports there to help organize and put together the appropriate meeting packages in preparation for that session? Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like the opportunity to find out from the Member exactly what it is that he is looking for as far as support and be able to find out how we can help one another make sure that this happens, but I'd like to better understand what it is that he's looking for. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thanks to the Minister. Just to kind of share the moving forward, we can take the fiveyear 2019 strategy plan, update that to a 2024 package and see how we can extend and improve that. Since then, there was a lot of challenges, so that'll be a good starting point to upgrade the fiveyear Sahtu education plan here, call it the 2019 fiveyear plan. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I didn't hear a question, but I very much look forward to discussing with the Member and absolutely very much look forward to hopefully travelling to the Sahtu. Thank you.
Oral questions. Member from Range Lake.
