Okay, thanks. Yeah, I don't think I have any further questions then. Or let me just check my notes. Yeah, okay, thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you. All right. So are there any -- Member for Monfwi.

Thank you. Minister of MACA.

Thank you. So we work with the municipal governments. If they bring -- whoever they bring to us that's who we do the training. I agree with the Member, it would be nicer -- nice to have some younger people get the training. These courses are available through school of community government. And, again, the communities are the ones that send the students in. If a community wishes to host an event, we can go into the community with one-offs if we need to, if they have -- you'll have numbers there. In the past of my experience, I have done one-offs in communities through the school of community government. Again, it's about training the youth and the people that are doing the job. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Monfwi.

You know, at high school level, I know that we were talking about SNAP the other time. I think one of my colleague talked -- did a Member's statement on SNAP. So I think this is where -- this is a good opportunity to extend this to the high school program because we're always -- at the high school level, in some communities we don't have much place for the -- to place the students or to -- you know, a lot of them wants to do work experience but there's limited place, you know. And mostly some of the time -- sometimes it's mostly the high school that we can place them at. We can't take them outside because we don't have too many places that, you know -- that they can get some kind of a work experience. So I just wanted to know if this training program can be extended to the high school students as well, especially the grade 12 students, because water treatment plant, you know, that's a good -- that's good for a lot of our young people. And I think it's a good skill to have. So I just wanted to ask if this can be extended to the high school students as well.

Thank you. Minister of MACA.

Thank you. So, again, the school of community government is for municipalities. We train the municipal staff there. If the municipality has grade 12 students that they want to train and they want to do that, we're more than willing to work with the municipality. But, again, this is more municipal employees. I know what the Member's talking about. I've had -- in my previous work, I've had done training where the community put a program on for students through their rec program. So I've done training that way. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Member for Monfwi.

Thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to ask about that because it is a good opportunity for a lot of our youth in small communities, especially, like, I'm thinking about a community that's isolated, like community of Wekweeti, you know. And it will be good if we have more of these training at the local level and especially to the high school. So it's incentive for many of these young people that, you know, so that they have something to look forward to. So that's why I'm just saying that, you know, it would be nice if we can have this -- or, you know, if there's an opportunity, I think we should take advantage of it and to extend this training program to the high school level instead of just only to the municipality or to the community government. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of MACA.

No. Thank you for their comments.

All right. Any questions for school of community government? Seeing none, please return to page 356, Municipal and Community Affairs, school of community government, operations expenditures summary, Main Estimates 2023-2024, $2,865,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Sports and recreation and youth, beginning on page 360 with information items on page 361 and 365. Questions? Member for Kam Lake.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I've got a couple questions here. And the first I would like to start with is all of the budgetary numbers for this year seem to be the same as they were previous. And so I'm wondering why there's no inflationary increase to these budget line items. Thank you.

Thank you. Member -- or sorry, Minister of MACA.

Yes, thank you. So with that detail, I'll turn to the deputy minister. Thank you.

Thank you. Deputy minister Gareau.

Thank you. Member for Kam Lake.

Thank you so much. I'm wondering, even right here, like the first line item under contributions, is annual NGO stabilization fund. And so I'm wondering why an NGO stabilization fund would not qualify as to be considered an NGO or dollars for an NGO? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Minister of MACA.