Thank you, Minister. Member for Frame Lake.
Debates of Feb. 23rd, 2021
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Madam Chair. Are these courses offered like an individual has to pay a fee, or they are sponsored, or MACA picks up all the costs? How does that work? Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Thank you, Madam Chair. The courses are applied to and there is a fee that is required, as well. I will have Ms. Eleanor Young elaborate on further details. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Young
Thank you, Madam Chair. Just very quickly, there are fees for most courses, but they are very nominal, $50 a day up to a maximum of $300 per course. Some courses run five to ten days. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Madam Chair. I, too, would be interested in getting a briefing. I will leave it at that. Nothing further. Thanks, Madam Chair.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you, Member for Frame Lake. Any further questions under School of Community Government? Seeing none, please turn to page 352. Municipal and Community Affairs, School of Community Government, operations expenditure summary, 2021-2022 Main Estimates, $2,933,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. We will go to sports, recreation, and youth beginning on page 355, with information items on page 359 until the end, which is page 363. Questions? Member for Kam Lake.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I was just looking at the sport and recreation funding line, which seems to have jumped around a little bit over the last few years. I am wondering if the Minister can speak to that a little bit. I am guessing that last year there was an influx of cash from the federal government for COVID-related expenses, and I am wondering if the Minister can elaborate. Thank you.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Thank you, Madam Chair. I will have Mr. Gary Schauerte elaborate on the influx of funding.
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Schauerte
Thank you, Madam Chair. The change in the revised estimates from the Main Estimates 2020-2021 reflects the COVID money that we received from Canada, $1.8 million. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Just to echo the messaging from the Member for Nunakput in regards to getting our kids in communities active and making sure that kids have stuff to do, I believe that that is a huge portion of mental health. Mental health is not just having phone numbers for kids to call. Mental health is keeping kids active and making sure that they have things to do in all of our 33 communities. I am a little bit concerned when I look at, for example, the travel line item down below. That's substantially higher than our sport and recreation number up above. I am wondering if the Minister can speak to what exactly this sport and recreaction line pays for. Thank you.
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Paulie Chinna Sahtu
Thank you, Madam Chair. I will have Mr. Gary Schauerte respond to the travel of $456,000. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Schauerte
Thank you, Madam Chair. Part of our travel budget related to sport and recreation also appears under regional ops. We do have employees in all regional offices that support community-based recreation programming. We have staff travelling into communities on a regular basis. This travel money will also support other programs, like the Youth Ambassador Program. That's a program where we bring youth together for a targeted volunteer experience where they may travel to a special event. Typically, we would take youth from our communities who may not be part of a multisport games team or their background might not be athletics, but they still want to go to these major events. The Youth Ambassador Program has opened the door for a number of kids from communities to be able to travel outside of other program dollars.
This also supports our effort to manage things like multisport games that are held in locations outside of our community. They could be southern-based, or they could be international-based. Every time we take 300 kids to a major event, there are a number of staff that need to go to something like that to provide the oversight and ensure that our athletes are safe when they travel to those events. The travel dollars in this program area support the implementation of the programming and, in some cases, the participants who are in those programs. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I fully support that travel line, then, and I am very happy that Mr. Schauerte was able to identify that that was support for kids to be able to travel. I am fully in support of that one. I would like to have additional information on what is included in the sport and recreation line, and if there is intent, especially over the next few years while we're in a pandemic state where people are definitely staying home, to increase that line item? Thank you.
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