Yes, thank you. If the Minister has maybe high level data around the percentage of students that are accessing this program, that would be great. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the way that it was restructured was that 55 percent of the funding would come from education, culture and employment, and that funding was focused on things like wellness support workers or personal support workers, or it could be through Indigenous counsellors within schools. It was really up to the schools to determine what that looked like at the end of the day. The only ask from ECE is that there was component -- a component of prevention that was within it and so that it wasn't exclusive to clinical care for one-on-one experiences, that mental health really does become a part of the whole education experience for students that we're talking about it, that we are educating students and making them aware that absolutely everybody has mental health because we all have brains and so we all have an onus to take care of our brains, just like we take care of our bodies. And so it would in that case really be 100 percent of the student body in some way, shape, or form. As far as numbers for the clinical side of it, that would come from health and social services. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I can appreciate that, and it's nice to have a wholistic approach for all children and teens going to school.

I guess, then, my question becomes, you know, how are we measuring the success of these programs and how will we know that they're accomplishing what we want them to be doing which is, you know, helping our youth with their mental health and as -- I know as the Minister has heard, it's not the greatest right now, so. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So when I sit down with education bodies, we always talk about this program every time I'm in front of them. This program is incredibly important to me, and I also see this program as a living program because as we change and as our demographic changes and as our student body changes over the years, the needs are very clearly going to change as well. So I think it's important that we continue to talk about this program and that it continue to evolve.

And so this year, we're working with education bodies to collect more detailed data on specific types of programs that they are running and specific groups of students that they're working with. So while, you know, there might be larger themes that schools are looking at, they also might have initiatives through smaller group work that they're doing as well, so really working to, after this year, create a baseline that we have in the Northwest Territories and base some of our measurements on that baseline that we're in the process of creating because, as the Member knows, we've just made these adjustments to the program so we need to start with a new baseline. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, yeah, I appreciate that. It's important to know where we're starting so we can know where we're going.

When does the Minister feel that she might have that baseline a little bit more on firm ground? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the school year ends in June but, of course, it takes time for schools to be able to compile data. They've got a lot of data that we are starting to share now. And so we're looking at working towards early next school year for that type of baseline. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. I'll go back to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that, and I look forward to when the Minister can share that information with this side of the House.

Just really quickly, and because I think nobody necessarily asks about it but it's something I'm very passionate about, can the Minister tell me is -- public library services, are they -- is usage staying static; are we expanding programs and services? What's the story that she can tell about our public library system in the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd love to pass to the assistant deputy minister, and if the Member wants more detailed information, always happy to have offline conversations with the Member or we can follow up depending on where the questions go. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. I'll go to the ADM.

Okay, thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, yeah, just correct me if my understanding is incorrect, but it's my understanding that the city of Yellowknife is really the only public library in the Northwest Territories -- has the only public library in the Northwest Territories that is not funded by this line item. So every other public library is funded in this line item, is that correct? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I might need to follow up unless -- we will follow up with the Member on that one, and we will have to bring back that information. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. I'll go back to the Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, that was my lived experience as a library staff at the city of Yellowknife many, many years ago. I'm pretty sure it's still the same, but I could be wrong.

So I guess my question, then, becomes if we want to expand public library services and really, you know, make sure we're supporting literacy in every facet of our territory, including adult literacy, of course how we expand those services and how we deliver those services, I think is a really great question to be engaging with the NWT Association of Librarians, and I would really encourage the Minister to speak with that group if she hasn't already. And that's my soapbox for the moment. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you. Next on my list is the Member from the Deh Cho.