Thank you. It's always a concern that we bring up as well, whether being on the Regular Member's side or now in my new position. And it is a requirement by the federal government, and we can ask them but we can't tell them to do the changes. It's something that they have initiated themselves. It’s all about accountability and we want to make sure that departments are accountable and that organizations are accountable for the dollars that we do access.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the Minister for the answer but still at the end of the day, if people in our smaller communities can't access these funds and one of the hindrance is the reporting. can you not work with the federal government and make sure they understand this so that we can try to get these people in the smaller communities to be able to access this program? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Minister.

We can continue to lobby the federal governments on moving forward in terms of the accountability structure and if there's any way we can make it a little bit easier for people that want to access the program. Thank you.

Mr. Minister, I'm going to allow one more before time is up there. Go ahead, Mr. Thompson.

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Further questions? Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I just have a couple of areas I want to explore here a bit. Just so I understand it, the second and third lines for revenue relate to agreements with the federal government on French and Aboriginal languages and then the other one on the second language instruction in French. So those two agreements, what do they actually cover? Do they cover operations of the schools? Is there any capital money in there? I'm just trying to understand what that money is for. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Minister?

The first pot of money was, as I mentioned, for programs in the Aboriginal and French language services. The second program is just for K to 12 school programs specifically for French. More detail on what kind of programs there are, maybe I'll ask my deputy minister to get into more details. But those are dollars that go to the schools and they work on what kind of programs and services that they feel is appropriate to be done. But any more detail, I can ask my deputy minister.

Did you want to allow your deputy minister to add to that, Mr. Minister?

Yes, please.

Okay. Go ahead, Mr. Stewart.

Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Then I just want to check, have we made any approaches to the new federal government in terms of capital funding for French school expansions? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Minister.

Yeah, we are looking at possibly working with the federal government. Not possibly, we're working with the federal government to see if we can get any kind of funding through their Heritage Canada Plan as well infrastructure dollars that might be there. We have also met with the French Association Commission Scolaire and talked about how we can move forward and looking at those kind of fundings for infrastructure. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I appreciate the answer from the Minister and I look forward to trying to work with him on that too. I think that there is some receptiveness on the federal side. I've been around for a while, I know that most of the money, in fact 80 per cent of the money, for the initial school here in Yellowknife, for the Francophone School actually came from the federal government. So I think it would be great to continue to pursue them and I'd like to work with the Minister on that.

I want to move down to the cooperation agreement for labour market agreement for persons with disabilities just so I understand this a bit better. Are these matching dollars then that come in from the federal government and we're required to match them? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Minister.

Yes, that's correct.

Mr. O'Reilly.