Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Ootes.
Debates of Feb. 27th, 2003
This is page numbers 365 - 404 of the Hansard for the 14th Assembly, 6th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was chairman.
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Supplementary To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Further Return To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Canada student financial assistance program is a federally funded program that goes to all provinces and territories and they apply certain guidelines, rules and regulations to that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Further Return To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Supplementary To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I understand that. I have been told that. But why is it that we are putting in $11 million of our own money? Why can we not make our own laws and regulations about that $11 million we are putting in? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Supplementary To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's to keep the integrity of the program and it's consistent with every other jurisdiction across the country, including the other two territories. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. What about the integrity about this government's position that we treat everyone equally and that we believe in equality, Mr. Speaker? Mr. Speaker, the Minister still has not answered why, when we are putting ten times more than what the Government of Canada is putting into our student financial assistance program, why can we not make our own law and why does the Minister not understand that he has the power to do that?
Supplementary To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Further Return To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have concern for all students, no matter what level they are at. The student financial assistance program was designed to be consistent across the country. We adhere to that. We also provide student assistance of $8,000 for those persons who have disabilities. We increased that from $5,000 to $8,000. That's for the SFA program. Additionally, we've set up a $100,000 program to support the Council for Persons with Disabilities and, through that program, students looking for alternative types of programs can access that and we have the assistance of the council for that. Additionally, Mr. Speaker, this government didn't partake in the federal program, employment assistance for persons with disabilities, which is perhaps one of the unfortunate things, but they didn't partake in that because the funding that would have been received from it would have been clawed back. We are looking at revitalizing that, Mr. Speaker, and that can add a lot of availability of funding for the type of program that Ms. Lee is referring to. I think it's important for us to pursue that and to ensure that we do get that type of funding to fill those kinds of voids, Mr. Speaker.
Further Return To Question 107-14(6): Financial Assistance For Students With Disabilities
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Question 108-14(6): Harmonization Strategy Data Collection
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Honourable Roger Allen, the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation. My question to the Minister is, upon going towards harmonization, they've collected data to inform the Members on how it's going to affect our constituents. I would like to ask the Minister how his department collects all this data.
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Roger Allen Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my understanding is that all data is collected through a series of consultations with the communities, stakeholders and those interested agencies who are responsible for delivering housing programs in smaller communities. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Supplementary To Question 108-14(6): Harmonization Strategy Data Collection
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The information the Minister has given me is not the same as the information I received from my communities. My community is saying that the information there is old and the data has not been collected yet. They are still putting data into their computers and some of the computers around the Territories are not able to calculate some of the increases or decreases. Can the Minister tell me if that's the case? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Roger Allen Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not aware at all that specific data has been entered, but I will keep the Member informed of the progress we are making to make sure that we have all the specific data available to us. Thank you.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have great concern for my riding of North Slave. The information is not there, the correct data is not collected. Would the Minister tell the House that his department will go into my riding or some other small communities and make sure that information we get is correct? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Roger Allen Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I stated earlier, our responsibility is to ensure that the LHOs and tenants are aware of this policy change. We are responsible for providing the training, so I will ensure that our people will be collecting the appropriate data, compiling it and reporting back, so that we can provide a positive answer. Thank you.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister if the two departments are still going to continue with the harmonization project, whether they have all the information or not on April 1st? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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