Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Chair, the spaces in Tlicho region would be licensed spaces so any space that is licensed would be included in that 1,956.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. The short answer to that is yes.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I absolutely agree with the Member that child care is very important. You know, having been a self-employed individual when I had my three children at home, if I did not go to work there was -- there was no sick days. There's no sick day

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that would be to support recruitment and retention. So it would be for both of those. And just in regards to why is it not in here, you know, there are a lot of difficult decisions to make. I am sure that every single one of the Minister

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you so much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if the goal is for our child care providers to be paid on par with education assistants across the territory, then the ask would need to be $3.5 million for wages and $3.5 million for compensation and benefits.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, definitely in our February sitting, we spoke a lot about wage grids and about funding to the sector. It was repeated quite a bit that in order to be able to increase the wage grid to be more on par, for example, with education assistants

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the NWT Early Childhood Association has a very good working relationship with the department. I've had the opportunity to chat with them during multiple occasions and can definitely ensure that this is added to the conversation in an upc

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the perspective of the system would be in order to ensure the safety of children in care. One of the things I know, just having spoken to people about this especially in the last term, was in regards to, you know, why can we have a certa

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I don't have the historical information on where those numbers originate from. That said, however, I am familiar with the regulations that the Member is speaking of and the concern, especially around school-aged children and after school

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, to start off I'd like to answer the Member's previous question. So we currently fund 1,956 spaces in the Northwest Territories. As far as the background on where those spaces come from, I would like to, please, pass to assistant deputy

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we're just pulling up that information right now. Potentially maybe we could come back to the Member on the exact number of total spaces in the territory that we are funding. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd love to see a day where, you know, people can put themselves on a list, and we have a centralized database that is shared among licensed child care providers. But we simply do not have that type of digital technology within ECE, let

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, unfortunately, we don't have a master waitlist or a database capable of ensuring that people are only on a waitlist once in the territory. We have anecdotal information from day homes and daycares but unfortunately we know that it's not

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I will definitely put in a plug for, you know, if anybody has any French translating drafters out there, who are both lawyers and very skilled in the language of French and translations, please come live in the Northwest Territories and

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, those regulations are still in development. And so they go through a process where they are -- we work closely with the Department of Justice to do that. And then before they can go public for consultation -- sorry, engagement, they must