I MOVE that this committee recommends that the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, in cooperation with the Minister of the Department of Health and Social Services, develop a model and ensures a minimum level of income for permanently disabled residents, and an assured level of health care benefits. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Debates of June 28th, 2000
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Committee Motion 9-14(3): To Recommend A Model To Ensure Minimum Level Of Income For Permanently Disabled Residents (carried)
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Thank you, Mr. Bell. The motion is being circulated. I think the motion has been circulated. Everyone has a copy. To the motion. Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried. The Chair recognizes Mr. Lafferty.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have a couple of questions for the Minister regarding the ABE in the communities. Some of the other Members have touched on it, but I know in my region we have one community that has a 70 percent illiteracy rate. A number of years ago, one of the other community's funding was taken out of the community and given to one of the boards to administer and to bring the program into the community. By doing that, we lost the ABE program in our community. I am just wondering where Mr. Cleveland spoke of how they were going to fund these different communities for ABE or the skills and careers. How is the department is going to control the spending? How do they know the money is being spent on what it is being given for? Thank you.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Community Skills for Work are based on proposals that are submitted from the communities, and that is the check on the system. With regard to block funding, that is based on programs that are identified for that, and there is some flexibility for those organizations. Thank you.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you. The Minister did not answer my question. The flexibility is there. The concern is are they giving us the services that the funds are there for, and the question is how do they control it? How do they monitor it? Are there any reviews on how the money is spent? Is it giving us what we want? Thank you.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will get Mr. Cleveland to clarify my comments. Thank you.
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Cleveland
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The department, about two years ago, established what has been called an accountability framework for divisional education councils. We have a similar type of arrangement with the College. Under that accountability framework, the councils are required to do a number of things. One is their requirement to submit a budget for the Minister for review. Secondly, they are required to submit a program plan in how they plan to deliver the programs, and third, they need to report on results at the end of the year. We use those to monitor performance, and it does provide the councils with some flexibility in terms of how they do it. We want to ensure that the results from the work are appropriate to the plan. Thank you.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just on the ABE, again, so there are some communities without ABE for a couple of years. I am just wondering if the Minister, with the $650,000, will he be going to the councils or the boards, whoever the funds are going to and try to bring the programs back so we can educate our adults, so they can go into the mining field and the oil field?
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Some of the funding is through the College, but the other funding is through the regional offices and proposals are submitted to those regional offices from the communities. Thank you.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What I was saying was that maybe the department can look at the statistics and say that this is needed in this community. We know that you brought us our proposal, but the criteria in there must change. We must have ABE. We need to train our people. We have to educate them. If we do not educate them, they cannot read the safety manuals and they cannot get jobs. That is what the mines are saying. The oil pipelines will be saying the same thing as well.
We have to have our ABE. I do not know what they do in some of the regions, with some of the boards, what kind of training they do, but I think we have to look at it very closely and pinpoint where we have to spend our funds in ABE and training our adults. Thank you.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also believe that we need to focus on communities that need the program and benefit from these particular programs. Thank you.
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Committee Motion 10-14(2): To Defer Advanced Education And Careers In Ece 2000-2001 Main Estimates (carried)
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
I MOVE that this item, advanced education and careers in the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, 2000-2001 main estimates, be deferred.
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The Chair Paul Delorey
There is motion on the floor being distributed. The motion has been circulated. The motion is in order. To the motion. Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried. This item, advanced education and careers, is deferred. We will go on to education and culture, 9-17, operation expense, total operations expense, $105,737,000. Mr. Dent
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are on page 9-12? Sorry, I thought we were going over to the next page, 9-17. Mr. Chairman, one of the goals that the department presented during its committee presentation on business plans said that the department wanted to develop and implement a departmental action plan for children. I am wondering if I can ask what would be in such a plan, what areas the plan would encompass, and when we could expect to see this plan?
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