Thank you, Minister Moses. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, and I thank the Minister for that answer. I guess the question is: it goes case-by-case, but does it also include the fact that there are other costs? Like if you have a family, the father has to provide food for the family, has to look after a sick spouse, and a child is going off to school. So are those factors built into this or not? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Moses?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are certain criteria for families and seniors to access the Senior Home Heating Subsidy. They can also be accessing income assistance. Other factors, such as kids going off to school, no, we don't factor those in. We factor what is in the criteria for accessing Income Assistance and the Senior Home Heating Subsidy. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister Moses. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, and I thank the Minister for that answer. I guess the concern I'm hearing, especially for some of the smaller communities, is, as I said, the expenses for this family are here, and they make too much money, but if they didn't do it, the kid can't go off to school, they can't provide food on the table, and that. So would the Minister be willing to get the department to look at this? At least look at it and see, as he talks about case-by-case situations, if they could look at that and give some discretion to their front-line workers in this area? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We do understand there are unique situations that our residents and our families are in. We also have a great Student Financial Assistance program, so if a student is going off to school, hopefully they're able to budget within their means, allowing the seniors at home to utilize their Senior Home Heating Subsidy, as well as utilize their income assistance, if they are on income assistance, for their most basic needs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister Moses. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the Minister for that answer. I guess I'm going to have to try this a different way. I'm not arguing about your Student Financial Assistance program; it's probably the best in the world, and I'll give you that. I totally agree with you on that. The biggest challenge in the small communities is for students to access or get employment; we can't do it. In the smaller communities there is sometimes job-sharing with two people and they only work four hours a day and they work for two weeks and they get off a week. So that's where I'm coming across, is that families aren't just saying, "We can't budget properly." It's just that the realty is they make this X amount of money, they get student financial assistance, there's still a gap; and for the child to go off and go to school, which we should be encouraging, and the parents are trying to be supportive in that, they're still not able to achieve this. So I guess, again, I'm going to ask the Minister: will he just look at that, talk to the staff, and look at these situations to see if that is something that can be dealt with in the future? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Moses, to the question.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are a lot of programs here that the Minister is referring to: Student Financial Assistance, Income Assistance, Senior Home Heating Subsidy. With the income, I'm not sure if it's something more specific, in terms of somebody that he's speaking to; but we're also doing investments, such as our career and education advisors who can work with students on things like budgeting programs, services. If they can't find a job in the community, depending on the age of the child, there's also an opportunity for that youth or young adult to look at accessing income assistance as well. If it is a youth who is living with the family, then that's taken into account when the income assistance application is being reviewed. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Moses. Mr. Thompson, are you satisfied?

Not really, Mr. Chair. Okay. I'm not talking about SFA; I'm talking about Senior Subsidy, the Senior Home Heating Subsidy Program. I'm talking about elders who have to look after their family. I'm talking about elders who, if they don't work, can't do that. The Minister talked about SFA, how great it is. Yes, when the student actually applies for it, yes, they do that, but it's still not helpful for the child to go there because, if he doesn't have a summer job, our SFA does not actually help as well as we want it to. So that was where my issue was, but I'm going to have to probably come from a different avenue on that.

So my next question, though, is: if we're changing the thresholds and stuff like that, we're going to see, probably, an increase in people able to use it, especially with allowing the rent subsidy, or people who rent. I think that's a great, really great thing, and I have to applaud the department for doing that, but do you see it as being an increase? Because we're going to see a whole bunch more people come to the door to get money for this, so are we looking at an increase for this, or is this something that you're going to look at this year and then see how it has an impact and potential increase for next year? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We wanted to expand the opportunities for more seniors to be able to access the Senior Home Heating Subsidy. In the past, it wasn't fully utilized. Some seniors don't fully utilize their fuel subsidy, and that's why we're changing it to a monetary, so they get the full access to what they're entitled to. So some of our elders fully utilize it, some go over, some don't even use it. So, thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister Moses. Mr. Thompson, you have a few minutes.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the Minister for that answer. I think what I heard was that it wasn't fully utilized this way, so now we are actually implementing these new changes to fully utilize this budget line; and if that's correct, the Minister can just say "yes" and that would be my last question for the day on this item. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that's correct.

Thank you, Minister Moses. Any further questions? Seeing none, I will call on page 46, income security, operations expenditure, $50,801,000. Agreed?

Thank you. We shall move on to the next activity, starting on page 50, ending on information item, page 60. I will read out the summary here: labour development and standards, operation and expenditure summary, $50,389,000. Moving on. Questions, and could you please refer to which page your question is on. Starting with Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I did promise not to do anything in the other section. Now I'm back on this section, so I do have some questions in this area. I guess the first one to start with is, I tried to ask the question previously in another section, but this is where it is, it's about the Skills 4 Success Territorial Support Team, and we talk about this being a new initiative, and I applaud the department for doing something like this. So we're bringing six positions; three for the north, three for the south. Three in Inuvik and three in Yellowknife. However, I guess my first question is: why are we putting the three in Inuvik and three in Yellowknife? Then we'll go from there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.