Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we continue to work with all of our education authorities on the roll-out of junior kindergarten for the 2017-18 school year. It is the responsibility of the education authorities to decide how they are going to best staff their junior kindergarten classrooms with the funding that we provide. The money that we are providing this year, that we committed to.
I am confident that the funding provided to these education authorities will be adequate for these authorities to offer quality early childhood programming for four-year-olds, as I mentioned, that is optional for parents.
More specifically, Mr. Speaker, for the Member's riding, where we have implemented junior kindergarten for the past three years in a lot of our communities, we have spoken with the superintendent and had discussions with her, and we have heard from the superintendent that junior kindergarten is working; it has shown success, great outcomes. As well, she has mentioned that the JK in the Member's riding of Nahendeh is adequately funded. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.