Thank you. Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that is precisely why I was hesitating because I was hoping to find that detail. I don't have that in the detail here that's on this particular briefing note. I will -- there is a very detailed breakdown. I happen to have seen under our past iteration of a role that I held in the last government. I don't have that detail in front of me, but I can get it to the Members. Thank you.

I'll go to the Member from Range Lake.

Thank you. I mean, I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth because this is free money, so I appreciate that. And I can imagine how it would be used in creating a supportive environment in our school's system that -- I think that's a very effective place to put it to ensure that young persons or teachers or whoever -- it would be nice to know just so we can get a better understanding of it, so I appreciate the Minister's commitment, and I'll leave it there. Thank you.

Member from Yellowknife Centre.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I had initial inquiry into the same question to begin with, which is basically what is it. If I understood what was said correctly, 18 programs or 18 -- I wasn't sure how this breaks out to what type of initiatives. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll move it to Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the national action plan has five pillars, one of which is

• Support for survivors and their families;
• Secondly, prevention;
• Third, a responsive justice system;
• Fourth, implementing Indigenous-led approaches; and,
• Fifth, social infrastructure and enabling environment.

I believe this particular $100,000 here, falling under the junior kindergarten to grade 12 is specific to the element under support for survivors and their families as well as to prevention. And in this regard, it is to enhance training and curriculum on gender-based violence prevention as well as intervention training for school staff, students, as well as Department of Education, Culture and Employment staff. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll now go to the Member from Yellowknife Centre.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Is it possible to send the Members a copy of whatever this action plan is so we can get a better sense of what it is? Thank you.

Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I certainly can forward a copy. The national action plan to end gender-based violence was released by WAGE Canada. I'm certain it's online. They then have taken that funding out to every province and territory and discussed how each province and territory would implement those five pillars which were agreed to under the national plan. So I will -- again, I can certainly forward the link on the action plan, and I believe our own response plan should also be online by now but if I'm incorrect, I'll make sure that we can get a copy. Thank you.

Thank you. We'll go to the next Member from the Deh Cho.

Thank you. What communities are involved in this for the Northwest Territories?

Thank you. I'll move it to Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, this work is being led with -- the national action plan and our response to it is led by the gender equity unit and specifically under the Minister responsible to support the status of women who is the counterpart here for WAGE Canada. And in that respect, I can say that that therefore involves all communities, and different communities have different community liaisons who are the touch point for the director of gender -- of gender -- sorry, the gender equity unit. So, again, I believe it should involve every community through that process. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Deh Cho.

How is this program -- the design of that, it must have included the community members, the community -- the leadership and the Members in the community, are they included in the design of this? Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to Minister Wawzonek.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, there's -- you know, again, I'm -- there was, I know back and forth, and this is really back in the 19th Assembly with a different hat on, there is a liaison process between the gender equity unit and communities. Some community liaisons were more active than others. Some were challenging to have engagements with. And some communities were very active and brought community groups together to have engagements. So there's also the shelter network that exists across the Northwest Territories and an informal network that exists across the Northwest Territories through that entity. So all of those are touch points. There's also, I know, been presentations by the gender equity unit to the Council of Leaders and at various times about both the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Inquiry as well as gender equity unit. So there's quite a lot of work that's gone into it, Mr. Chair. And at this point this supplementary estimate is just for WAGE Canada's funding of the work that's happening in the gender equity unit, not necessarily the gender equity unit at large. Thank you.

Thank you. Is there any further questions from Members? Okay, thank you.

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2023-2024, Department of Education, Culture and Employment, junior kindergarten to grade 12 school services not previously authorized, $100,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you.

Moving on, Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2023-2024, Department of Education, Culture and Employment, labour development and advanced education, not previously authorized, $2,843,000. Any Members -- Range Lake. Member from Range Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the North Slave regional training partnership, how is this money being utilized in the region? Is it just funding for the department, or is it available to other parties who are developing regional training programs and partnerships in the region? Thank you.