Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister point to where in this government's business plans or strategies she can show that we have a real serious focus on improving family literacy? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think that we have a real focus from this Assembly on supporting healthy families, and I think that literacy is a huge component of family units and family structures. And so what I would say to that is that has everything to do with, you know, how we are growing babies on the inside and continuing to support children once they're on the outside and how we're supporting teens and adults and communities. I think literacy and the health of our family units and the health of our communities absolutely relates to literacy. And so I think that has to do with everything that we're doing as an Assembly, whether that's ensuring that we are supporting residents to be involved in housing and to be involved in the trades and building and supporting of stable housing, whether that is through education pursuits and ensuring that we're building a strong economic foundation for the entire territory, whether that is about health care. And we want more residents to be involved directly in health care across the territory so I would say that literacy really is the underpinning of all of these pieces, and so certainly something that we want to continue to invest in. But investments don't only come in the form of money, and so I think that investment really -- you know, it comes from absolutely everybody. It's even within the work that we're doing in Education, Culture and Employment in Indigenous languages. It relates to absolutely everything, Mr. Speaker, and I agree with the Member, that literacy is incredibly important, and we need to work both wholistically and strategically as a territory to ensure that we're supporting literacy from start to finish. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Oral questions. Member from Yellowknife Centre.
