Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the education Minister about how we can provide more certainty to education authorities given the loss of Jordan's Principle funding. So, of course, the interim support initiative funding has been essential in tiding over education authorities for the current year by helping them hire the needed education assistants. However, that funding doesn't have the same flexibility as Jordan's Principle, and schools have struggled with less access to behaviour consultants, educational assessments, speech therapy, other sorts of things.
Now, I understand the Minister has been in regular communication with school board officials, and that helps, but I think we're all looking for more specific information to get more certainty around planning and budgeting.
So my first question relates to, there was an expectation that the federal minister would make an announcement either late last year or early this year addressing how Jordan's Principle funding might work going forward for northern Indigenous families. Is the Minister aware of any updated timelines on when we will hear from the federal government about a decision about the restoration of Jordan's Principle to the NWT? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.