Thank you, Mr. Chair. Like my colleague, I want to talk about what's not on this list. It's my understanding that JH Sissons School on 51A is the oldest school in the NWT. I wonder if the Minister could tell me when we can expect to see a renovation at that school? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I mentioned, we do have 49 schools in various conditions and states across the Northwest Territories. In the previous government, there was a planning study within the budget; however, that money was moved to address the fixing of the roof at William McDonald, and as all Capital Planning Processes it has to go through the planning process and that’s based on priority getting it onto the budget. So it's going to have to meet the requirements that are listed that will get them on the planning study. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So right now there's no definite time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Green.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wonder if the Minister could just review for us the requirement for a midlife retrofit of the school?

Thank you, Ms. Green. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and with all Capital Planning Processes, there's primary criteria for ranking capital projects, five of them. There's protection of the people, protection of assets, protection of the environments, financial investment and program needs or requirements. They're all taken into consideration when we're going through the Capital Planning Process. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Green.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it's clear that Sissons School along with many others in the NWT needs significant investment from this government. What efforts is the Minister making to grow the pot of money available for our school retrofits? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just as I mentioned, all projects have to go through a capital planning process and there is a budget within the capital infrastructure budget here, and it's not only schools. We've got roads. We've got health centres, we've got hospitals. There's a lot of things that are taken into consideration. We’ve got housing that are all in the budget that we need to look at, and as I said it's all the priorities that are in the planning process. We also have some other criteria that we look at when addressing the needs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Green, anything further on page 11?

Thank you. I would just like to have one more go at my question, and my question was not about competing priorities but growing the budget for addressing this priority of retrofitting schools. Can the Minister tell us what efforts, if any, he's making to grow that pot of money? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. All schools that are on the list have gone through the Capital Planning Process. The efforts to get some retrofits, some additional space on schools that have changed from let's say a kindergarten to grade nine to a junior kindergarten to grade 12 and needed to be set as a priority for spacing issues. We are under a fiscal situation here in the Northwest Territories as are all other jurisdictions across Canada, and whatever dollars that we can get out of the budget, they want to use and put them in the areas that we see that meets the needs of the capital planning process. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Mr. Minister. Ms. Green, if we can focus on the capital projects on page 11.

I have no further questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I see that Ecole Allain St-Cyr is listed on page 11, and is it safe to assume then that the funds that are listed on the previous page, that doesn't include any additional funding that the department has applied to Heritage Canada for. Is that the case, Mr. Chair? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly.

That's the total cost of the project for that year, and as I mentioned there is a proposal that they go to the federal government, so, yes, no, that is total cost of project. Thank you.

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

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So can the Minister tell me when that proposal is submitted to Heritage Canada? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

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