Thank you, Mr. Chair. Unfortunately, I can't give a solid answer. We -- we would have liked -- I would have liked to get this done this term. I've said that many times. I can't -- I can't lie about that. But the fact is that everyone was preoccupied for a couple years and not just the government but Indigenous governments. And when we out to just discuss this topic, it was clear that everyone wanted to be involved. There had to be a significant level of involvement from -- from teachers, from Indigenous governments, from, you know, different organizations. And so because of that and because of the fact that we were stalled for a couple of years, we've had to concede the fact that this will take longer than this Assembly.
However, the plan right now is to get it done in two phases.
The first phase I would like to see happen this term. I would like this Assembly to pass some amendments to the Education Act. And those would be much more technical in nature. They would fix some of the outstanding issues that we've seen over the past 25 years with the current Education Act. They would help facilitate information sharing, you know, which we discussed earlier today, and clarify the roles of education DECs versus DEAs which, you know, outside of Yellowknife are -- it's a real issue. So there's a number of those more technical amendments that I would like to get done this term.
We are working on developing an MOU with the -- through the Council of Leaders on this. And some Indigenous governments want to participate in that. Others haven't expressed interest. You know, there's still some work to be done. I think some people don't want to do phase 1 and phase 2; they just want to just do it all at once. But I'd like to see some changes because I expect that the full modernization won't happen until the end of the next Assembly. And so for four years, at least if we can have some positive minor changes in place I would like that, so.
And the funding framework is dependant on the legislative framework. So while we have made some minor tweaks so far, and I hope to make some more tweaks to the funding framework by the end of this Assembly, the real changes will happen next term. Thank you.