Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Referring to student financial assistance, in the review that is under way in this area, will some consideration be given to decentralizing the administration of these grants to regions? Students in the Baffin region are in school often in Ottawa or maritime provinces. There are a number of them in smaller universities like Wolfville, Nova Scotia, or Mount St. Vincent's in Nova Scotia, Trent in Ontario, et cetera. They seem to have even more difficulties with time and distance and communicating with the very hard working people in the student financial assistance office in Yellowknife. My feeling is that it might be an option to look at having this function regionalized to some extent, where, I would suspect, people in the regions would know the students, their school history and perhaps know better how to help them if they are having a personal or financial crisis. I would like to ask that general question. I think it has worked well with the moves that have been made with child care. I would like to ask if that is being considered for student financial assistance administration. Thank you.
Debates of March 15th, 1994
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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit
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Thank you. Mr. Minister.
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Precisely, yes.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Patterson.
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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit
That is the correct answer, Mr. Chairman. I am glad to hear that.
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On page 18-16, grants, $7.58 million. Agreed?
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Agreed.
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Thank you. Page 18-17, 18-18, and 18-19, contributions, $170.923 million. Mr. Koe.
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Fred Koe Inuvik
Mr. Chairman, I have a few questions on some of these contributions. The first one is under northern performers, contributions to performing and show-casing northern talent. I would like to know what criteria is used and how this money is distributed.
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Thank you. Mr. Minister.
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Generally speaking, it is based on an application process. I will get a copy of the process and the criteria that is used and provide it to the honourable Member.
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Thank you. Mr. Koe.
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Fred Koe Inuvik
Similarly, with the grants to cultural organizations, I assume there is a policy that sets out the criteria and who gets money.
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Thank you. Mr. Minister.
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you. Yes, I believe that was approved some time ago, within the last six months or so.
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All right. Mr. Koe.
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Fred Koe Inuvik
I assume I would get a copy of that policy also. Under short-term employment program, is the criteria under STEP still similar to what it used to be when it was with Economic Development and Tourism? Are those the type of projects that qualify under this contribution program?
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you. Yes, except we are going to consider utilizing those resources for the investing in people initiative that we are undertaking.
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Fred Koe Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, that $412,000 may be amalgamated under the new program?
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Fred Koe Inuvik
... of Alberta. There is partial funding to provide support services. In terms of where most of our students who are taking post-secondary education go, do the majority of them go to... I assume this counsellor is in Edmonton, so do the majority of our students still go to Edmonton or have they now been spread out across the country? Do you have those statistics as to which southern institutions our students are going to?
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you. It still has our largest population for post-secondary programming, but I would not say it is now the majority of our students. We would have to do an assessment of that, but I don't think it is the majority of our students.