Thank you. Mr. Minister.
Debates of Feb. 24th, 1997
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Committee Motion 21-13(4): To Defer Consideration Of Main Estimates For Rwed
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair John Ningark
Committee Motion 21-13(4): To Defer Consideration Of Main Estimates For Rwed
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 21-13(4): To Defer Consideration Of Main Estimates For Rwed
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair John Ningark
Culture and careers. Mr. Erasmus.
Committee Motion 21-13(4): To Defer Consideration Of Main Estimates For Rwed
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What is the criteria the department uses to allocate base-funded adult educators?
Committee Motion 21-13(4): To Defer Consideration Of Main Estimates For Rwed
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Minister.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the allocation would be done by the colleges, not by the department. I do not believe there have been any additions to those communities where there were adult educator positions funded in the last four or five years, at the very least. The funding situation has been such that the colleges have not been able to extend the numbers of communities which have base-funded positions in some years. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Committee Motion 21-13(4): To Defer Consideration Of Main Estimates For Rwed
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Culture and careers. Mr. Erasmus.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There have been no additions in the last four or five years at least. Once a community gets a base-funded adult educator, does that position stay there forever, even though there seems to be some communities that do not have adult educators?
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The Chair John Ningark
The honourable Minister, Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, not necessarily. The college is looking at, and we are co-operating with the college, a results-based approach which may see educators moving from community to community.
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The Chair John Ningark
Culture and careers, operation and maintenance. Question number four, Mr. Erasmus.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Are there some communities that have never had a base-fund adult educator?
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. The honourable Minister, Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Mr. Chairman, yes. However, I would like to make sure that people recognize that a good portion of the college programs are offered on a third party funded basis and that, over any period of time, the college has generally managed to find funding sources to ensure that some programming has been offered in pretty well any community where there has been a significant demand in the past few years. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. The honourable Member for Yellowknife North, Mr. Erasmus. The final supplementary.
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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What are those communities that have never had a base-fund adult educator?
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. I believe that requires some detail. Mr. Minister.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do not have that detail with me. We will have to endeavour to research it and provide it to this committee.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Culture and careers, operation and maintenance, total operations and maintenance is $103,977,000. Mr. Henry.
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Seamus Henry Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On culture and careers, I note in some of the remarks it talks about incremental training relating to development of the Inuit public service for Nunavut. Would the Minister tell me approximately how much of this budget is related to that particular activity? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Committee Motion 21-13(4): To Defer Consideration Of Main Estimates For Rwed
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Minister.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Mr. Chairman, I am not sure you can say that anything in the budget relates just specifically to that. We spend a good deal of money on adult education in the Nunavut region and that will, in large part, go to support that goal, but it does not specifically relate to that area.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. I am wondering if that is in the detail of work performed on third others. Mr. Henry.
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Seamus Henry Yellowknife South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To answer your question, it is in the last paragraph under culture and careers, halfway through the last paragraph. The federal government has provided just under $40 million for education and training in Nunavut. Is the department administering these funds? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Minister.