Page 9-19, education and culture, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, $52 million.
Debates of Feb. 27th, 2003
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Sorry, that's $52,000. You agreed to millions? We have to have a correct there, that's $52,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Page 9-21, education and culture, total contributions, $118.954 million. Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Included in that number is the task shown on page 9-19, cultural projects. I noticed that there is a drop of $100,000 between what we are spending this year and what is proposed in next year's budget for culture projects. Could the Minister explain the drop?
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Minister Ootes.
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Mr. Devitt.
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Devitt
Mr. Chair, it's the funding of the living history project that was included in the prior year. Thank you.
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Thank you. Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
On page 9-20, the NWT Arts Council contribution for $280,000 is shown. I just wanted to tell the Minister that I am quite pleased to see this doubling of the amount of money that's going to the arts council and would encourage him to continue to look for ways to increase the funding. I think we haven't, over the years, put enough money into supporting the arts, particularly art for art's sake. It's important that we don't try to tie all of our contributions to the economic side of art. I think we need to make sure that we can support the arts properly. I am pleased to see the doubling of the money going in this year over last year and would encourage the Minister to keep looking for ways to increase the funding for the council. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Thank you. Minister Ootes.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We certainly appreciate the comments by Mr. Dent on that and we, along with Members, feel there is a need to address the arts issue. As Members may know, we have an arts strategy panel report and we hope to address that fairly shortly, from there to seek further funding. We are looking at Heritage Canada as a possible extra funding source. We don't have any indication yet whether we can get that, but they have been supportive of our effort to develop the strategy. Thank you.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Thank you. Page 9-21, total contributions, $118.954 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
---Agreed
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Total grants and contributions, $119.006 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Active positions, information item, student loans. Ms. Lee.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a question on the information item on page 9-24. Referring back to the student grants on page 9-13, where $8.489 million is allocated for student grants. How does that fit into this revolving fund? I am sure that I just don't know how to read this right, but loans granted here, for example, for this year and the past two years are in the range of $4 to $6 million. Could I get some explanation as to how this works?
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Thank you. We are still on page 9-23. We have not gone to 9-24 yet. Page 9-23, information item, student loan revolving fund, Ms. Lee.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
I know. I was being listened to and I hope the department got my question and perhaps I could have the answer. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Thank you. Mr. Ootes, remember the question.
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Mr. Devitt.