Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment. It is regarding access to adult basic education and literacy problems we find in our communities. Mr. Speaker, many of the small communities in the North do not have access to ongoing adult basic education programming.
Programs delivered in a lot of our small communities rely on project-based funding, such as those now defunct in the Community Skills For Work Program. These type of unsecured, short-term funding literacy programs create unequal access between communities. There are communities that have full-time positions. There are communities that have a part-time position and there are some communities that strictly deliver small programs.
Yet, Mr. Speaker, something further must be done to include small communities, to give them the ability to have the same access to programs. It should not matter where you live. Mr. Speaker, does the Department of Education have a policy in regard to how they allocate literacy funds? Or is it strictly a first come, first serve basis? Thank you.