Thank you, deputy minister. Member for Kam Lake.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I am wondering if the Minister can briefly explain what the public will be getting from the $200,000 line item for Indigenous languages revitalization, and what they can expect to come out of that? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you. Sorry. I am just looking for the line item. Things are moving quite quickly here. What page are we on?

Thirty-seven.

Thank you. That is part of the $600,000 that we received after the last main estimates, and so it is broken out throughout some different areas. That is all money that is going towards the development of an Indigenous languages diploma program in collaboration with University of Victoria and Aurora College. As for the specific dollars in this section, I can pass it over to Mr. Shannon.

Thank you, Minister. Mr. Shannon.

Thank you, Mr. Shannon. Minister.

Thank you, Minister. I will move on to Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I just have a couple of things I want to raise here. The Minister talked about that there was some kind of survey of all the heritage centres, their needs that are under way. I have had a chance to travel to the Yukon several times, and I want to encourage the Minister and the staff to look at some of the fabulous First Nation Centres that have been established in the Yukon. I've been personally to the Champagne and Aishihik First Nation Centre in Haines Junction. We could see that the outside of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation facility, the Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre as well. These are absolutely stunning facilities that include areas on the outside of the physical building for cultural activities. There's people working in there on language revitalization. They have cultural objects, historic artifacts. There's storytelling areas. It just boggles my mind.

I really want to encourage you and your staff to look at some of the photos, and I can share some of them with you, if you'd like. A lot of that funding came from the federal government. I don't know why we're not partnering with First Nation Indigenous governments here to do the same kind of thing. It really takes some vision and leadership to do that kind of work. I have lots of confidence in the Minister across on the other side to do this, but that's the kind of thing that I think we should be aiming for here. Go over and find out what they're doing in the Yukon and learn from that experience and bring some of that here. Is that something the Minister is prepared to look into? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Member. Minister.

Thank you. I won't be going to the Yukon anytime soon but note to the Member's point. I've had those discussions, and I believe there is increasing interest from Indigenous governments, as well, to start displaying their own pieces and doing those types of things. I can ask the deputy minister who might have some more information on this, but we're very open to all those kinds of things. I have a feeling the people at the Prince of Wales heritage centre are very well aware of what's going on in the Yukon and around Canada, so I'd like to hand it to my deputy minister. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Deputy minister.

Thank you, deputy minister. Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I know the Minister maybe feels he can't go to the Yukon right now, but I'm happy to share lots of great photos with him, even if I took them myself. I wanted to go into one other area. I know that, of course, we have the Northern Studies Program component of our education system. As I understood that one of the really important tools that students had access to and could look at is the NWT timeline that's on the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage website. I just thought I'd kind of call that up to see where it's at, and I get this thing on my screen that says, "Adobe Flash Player is blocked." You can't even get into the timeline now.

This, as I understood, is a really important for tool for students in that the Northern Studies course that they have to take in high school. At one time, this was a state-of-the-art website with lots of information. You would have boxes that would open and give people history, links; there were videos, sound recordings. It was a tremendous asset. Now, it's blocked. It doesn't work anymore. Is there a plan to get this online again? Especially with COVID, we know that our high school students are spending less time in the classroom. Is this going to get fixed? Is there some money in the budget to fix this? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Member. Minister.

Thank you. As I am sure Members are aware, Adobe officially stopped supporting and providing updates to Adobe Flash on December 31, 2020. The internet was outraged, but it has been a long time coming. The timeline was using that. There is not money in the budget to deal with that specific issue. However, a lot of operations go on without specific line items attached to them, so the department will look into this. It's interesting that the Member brings this up. I was looking at the timeline a few hours ago, actually, and I was going to bring this to the department. He's not the only one concerned. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. There's a great line, "Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ," but I am glad to hear that the Minister and I are on the same page on this one. I just can't say enough about this timeline. At one point, it was state-of-the-art. I know the person who was kind of involved in helping set this up. Unfortunately, that capacity was kind of swept up in the ISS storm where everybody was centralized over at Finance. I am not convinced that the department still has the capability to do this on its own anymore. If there are no resources dedicated to get this done in the budget here, I am a little bit disappointed, especially because we have students who are trying to do work from home and can't even get this kind of resource on the Internet. Can the Minister give me a timeline for when this work is going to be done? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Member. Minister.