Agreed.
---Agreed
Debates of March 15th, 1994
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Some Hon. Members
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The Chair John Ningark
Information item, details of culture and careers activity by task on page 18-23.
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Agreed.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Information item, detail of educational development activity by task on page 18-24. Agreed?
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Agreed.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Information item, detail of funding allocated to school boards on page 18-25.
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Agreed.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. The next one is information item, divisional boards of education. Agreed?
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Agreed.
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The Chair John Ningark
And then, student loan revolving fund. Mr. Lewis.
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Brian Lewis Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the past, we've asked questions about loans that had been written off. In other words, they're not forgiven, they are loans which are still on the books but for all practical purposes, they're not deemed to be collectible. They still remain a debt on the part of the student. I notice that this year there is a large amount of money that is
being forgiven. I would like to ask the Minister what is the criteria to determine whether a loan should be forgiven or not?
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Thank you. Mr. Minister.
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If I could ask Mr. Devitt to respond to that, please.
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Go ahead, Mr. Devitt.
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Devitt
Mr. Chairman, to be eligible to have a loan remitted, a student must have successfully completed at least 60 per cent of their programs, and they must also return to the Northwest Territories to live. Thank you.
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Thank you. Mr. Lewis.
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Brian Lewis Yellowknife Centre
So there is this whole other category of student, then, that, for one reason or another, has borrowed money but can't get work or has become sick or whatever. There would be none of those people included in this over a million dollars that we are, in fact, going to be forgiving students through the remission program.
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Thank you. Mr. Minister.
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the loans forgiven, that is correct.
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Qujannamiik. Information item, student loan revolving fund. Agreed? Mr. Whitford.
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Tony Whitford Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the same category as the previous question dealing with student loans and the ability to repay, there are times that students who are originally from the Northwest Territories -- born and raised in the territories, but they are not aboriginal -- find, upon their return, they are unable to repay the loan because there isn't any work in their area or any work at all, and in order to make a living, they have to go away, at least temporarily, from the territories to work. If they were staying in the territories, that loan would be forgiven, but the fact is that they can't. They end up owing this amount of money. Are there any provisions at all for dealing with this kind of a situation? You know, they are bona fide residents of the territories, and in some cases - I will just add on to it a little bit here, Mr. Chairman - the question had been put to me about whether or not time spent in a voluntary type of work elsewhere in Canada or abroad would contribute to repayment in time, so to speak, of a loan for those individuals who do meet that residential criteria. Are there any provisions at all for that, or is this an impossible situation?
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Thank you. The honourable Minister for Education.
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Under the present criteria, there are no provisions for that kind of situation, except I must say to the honourable Member that the Ministers of Education across the country are reviewing the possibility of what you might say is income contingent repayment. In other words, your repayment is determined by the kind of income that you are making. If it reduces the actual loan for that particular month or that particular year because you have a reduced income, then that is what going to be considered. But that is a national initiative, and if all the other Ministers agree on that kind of initiative for loan repayments across the country and the federal government agrees with it, then we will be able to implement it. But that work is now ongoing. We started it this past year.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Page 18-27 of the 1994-95 main estimates on Education, Culture and Employment, student loan revolving fund. Agreed?
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Agreed.
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