Okay, thank you. I will go to the Member from Monfwi.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Well, it will be beneficial for many of our community members that don't want to leave the communities, especially with their young families. And where housing is -- we're in housing crisis in small communities, and I don't think they want to leave, you know, especially with the public housing unit.
So another one too is a literacy funding. Indigenous languages -- no, literacy funding. I do appreciate my colleagues that are really advocating for the Indigenous, that literacy -- advocating for the Indigenous students, especially with the literacy. So how -- there is an increase from the last fiscal year to the upcoming fiscal year. So how is this funding going to be allocated in the region? Thank you.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd like to pass this one to the deputy minister.
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Jamie Fulford
Mr. Chair, the Member correctly noted that some money was held back from Aurora College under an MOU that we used to provide funding for them, and ECE has reconceived how its role in delivering literacy programming. Some of that funding is being used to support a literacy council employment training program, which is already underway. There's nine community deliveries that are to be completed over an 18-month period. The first four deliveries to take place in Hay River, Fort Resolution, Lutselk'e,and Fort Providence. And there's other efforts, including expressions of interest for services in Inuvik, Fort Smith, to gauge the appetite to re-establish some literacy programming in those communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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The Chair Richard Edjericon
All right, thank you. I want to continue moving on. Is there any further questions?
I am going to go to the Member from Frame Lake.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanted to actually follow up on some questions I was asking on the floor today just with the benefit of the time that we have in Committee of the Whole here, to speak a bit more about the post-secondary funding formula. My colleague from Range Lake was speaking to it yesterday.
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Jamie Fulford
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The funding formula is one of a series of steps that'll need to be put in place as part of transformation. We have to focus our efforts where the need is greatest right now. So we have a general sense of what we want the formula to be able to do, provide dependable, stable funding. And I've, you know, heard the discussion earlier today about having the ability in that to provide for accountability measures as well. That's definitely a part of it as well. But it's -- these are pieces that are in the research phase, I would say, right now. So there's concurrent work going on, but we're not running out ahead with the formula. I don't want to give that misimpression. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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The Chair Richard Edjericon
All right. Thank you. I am going to go back to the Member from Frame Lake.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I guess that raises for me the natural question, what is the department putting ahead of the formula? And I get the impression that's the Polytechnic University Act, but I don't want to answer the questions for them, but can the department kind of help us understand this -- all the steps that are in place, but what's going ahead of the formula? Thanks.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I will pass to the deputy minister. Thank you.
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Jamie Fulford
Mr. Chair, there's a series of steps. There's milestones that are set out in the Aurora College transformation on the website of the department. And our capacity requires that we focus on areas where we can -- you know, where we need to get something done on a timeline. So I am not sure that I am quite getting at the Member's question there.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The deputy minister was 90 percent there. What I was looking for is details on exactly what they are working on currently. So he was saying there's a number of steps that need to be done. I am trying to better understand what those steps are and the department's progress on them just so I can have a better sense of where we're at with the transition. So I was just looking for you to elaborate on those points. Thanks.
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Jamie Fulford
Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the clarification from the Member. So among the steps that we're working on right now, we work closely with Aurora College, have frequent meetings with them. We're supporting them where we can when it comes to their CAQC involvement. There is discussion on infrastructure needs. We're in discussions with them on future course offerings and the timing of those offerings. So there is a lot of discussion happening with Aurora College on a number of fronts at this time. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I know that a while back it was highlighted that we had fallen off the timeline. I went back, and I looked at the foundational review, and I've kind of looked over it, and I note that we're not terribly off of step. The foundation -- foundational review envisioned the university being fully realized by 2028. So we still have some time. I am just wondering where we're at in the timeline knowing that the CAQC process has been pretty positive. Can the Minister or deputy minister help us understand where we're at in terms of timelines and whether they feel that we're on track. And if we're not on track, just to give them some more to elaborate on what we need to do to get on track. Thank you.
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