Mr. Minister, can you provide that information?
Debates of Feb. 16th, 2011
This is page numbers 5853 - 5902 of the Hansard for the 16th Assembly, 5th 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 program.
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Jackson Lafferty Monfwi
Mahsi, Mr. Chair. Yes, we don’t have the detailed information here, but we’d be more than willing to provide that information to the Members. Mahsi.
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The Chair David Krutko
Thank you. We are on page 10-27, income security, operations expenditure summary, $38.823 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Krutko
Page 10-24? The Member is seeking unanimous consent to go back to 10-24. Committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Bob Bromley Weledeh
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a clarification. I note the drop in funding for literacy by about $125,000. This is a key program. I’m wondering if I can find out where that cut is happening. Thank you.
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Daniels
Thank you, Mr. Chair. That’s a reallocation to reflect where we’ve been spending money. There was an evaluation of the Literacy Strategy a few years ago in which there was a recommendation that came forward to ensure we have a position dedicated to supporting the Literacy Strategy. So, fortunately, the money is being used to support a literacy coordinator in the department. So that’s where the change is being shown. Thank you.
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The Chair David Krutko
For the record, I’ll read out the totals again. Advanced education, grants and contributions, contributions, total contributions, $33.493 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Krutko
Let’s go to page 10-28, income security, grants and contributions. Ms. Bisaro.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thanks, Mr. Chair. Just a question with regard to the amount for student grants. We’ve got $9 million here on page 10-28 and then on page 10-27 student financial assistance is almost $12.4 million dollars. So is student financial assistance
costing us the $12 million plus the $9 million? Thank you.
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Daniels
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The $12.395 million is the total cost of student financial assistance. Sorry, Mr. Chairman. The $12.395 million is the total cost of the Student Financial Assistance program. It includes staff and the grants the Member referred to, as well as the allowance for the loan fund.
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Bob Bromley Weledeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On November 4, 2010, this House recommended that eligibility for the Student Financial Assistance program be expanded to include students taking full-time secondary school upgrading programs in preparation for post-secondary education. I’m wondering if the Minister has incorporated that into the program for student financial assistance 2011-2012.
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Jackson Lafferty Monfwi
Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. That motion was brought to this House. It was a direction to our department to provide funding for upgrading. We currently don’t provide funding for upgrading, but we are working closely with the communities and there are other funding sources out there. We provide SFA, student financial assistance, for college and university programming.
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Bob Bromley Weledeh
I’d just like a little more explanation on the Minister’s comment there on how this motion is being addressed in programs.
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Jackson Lafferty Monfwi
With any motion that comes forward we look at it and see where it can fit within our programming. At the same time we, as it stands now, will be reviewing the SFA programming and that will happen this year. This is an area we can look at as an option. I’m sure we’ll be hearing from students out there from the communities. It has been brought up before in this House as well as at question period, so I’m sure there will be community members that will be raising those issues. It has been addressed and we’ll definitely look at it in due time.