training And Employment  Mr. Speaker, through the support of all Members of the 14th Legislative Assembly, we have supported training and employment for Northerners, including: - the maximizing northern employment initiative to help ensure that the people of the North are employed and actively involved

adult And Post-secondary Education  Mr. Speaker, a GNWT-wide literacy strategy has been developed during the life of this Assembly to ensure that each and everyone in our communities has the opportunity to learn to read, write and perform basic math skills in any of our eleven official languages. This literacy str

kindergarten To Grade 12  For all our kindergarten to Grade 12 students, Mr. Speaker, we have completed initiatives that we feel have not only improved students' ability to learn, but have assisted our teachers and administration to better perform their important task of assisting our youth to be the best

early Childhood  In our early childhood education area, Mr. Speaker, to ensure the youngest members of our population have a positive start in life, we have: - provided funding for 15 language nests - a program whereby the elders and community language speakers work with preschoolers to develop

Minister's Statement 115-141(6): Departmental Successes  Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you for your understanding, colleagues. Mr. Speaker, "Towards a Better Tomorrow" states, "Our ultimate goal is to improve the quality of life for all people in the NWT." With that goal in mind, I would like to briefly highlight some of the init

Bill 31: An Act To Amend The Official Languages Act, No. 3  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, that Bill 31, An Act to Amend the Official Languages Act, No. 3, be read for a third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Tabled Document 105-14(6): GNWT Response To "a Vision For The Arts In The Nwt" - NWT Arts Strategy Action Plan  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled, "The GNWT Response to a Vision for the Arts in the Northwest Territories." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Question 418-14(6): Declining High School Graduation Rates  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it will likely take a number of weeks before we could put some substantive information together that would clearly outline what is happening and why things are happening. We know it is happening; we have that information. But why that is ha

Question 418-14(6): Declining High School Graduation Rates  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this point I can't relate that to this, Mr. Speaker. I would have to do a lot more checking on information before I could address that particular question. Thank you.

Question 418-14(6): Declining High School Graduation Rates  No, Mr. Speaker, I don't have any results of that yet. Thank you.

Question 418-14(6): Declining High School Graduation Rates  Mr. Speaker, the statistics that I have indicate that the graduation rates for Yellowknife in 1999 were 170; in 2000 were 165; in 2001 were 155; and in 2002 were 149. We're analyzing the enrollments and student results for grades 10 to 12 to see what's happening on that, Mr. Spe

Question 416-14(6): Need For Emergency Shelters In Yellowknife  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we always are prepared to look at our availability to do things. Naturally we have to live within the policies and the mandate that we've been given. So I have to ensure that whatever we do is within the policies and not outside of that. A

Question 416-14(6): Need For Emergency Shelters In Yellowknife  Yes, Mr. Speaker, we'll certainly undertake to do that and we'll coordinate that together. Thank you.

Question 416-14(6): Need For Emergency Shelters In Yellowknife  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it should be remembered that our particular responsibility of this program lies in the area of income support. When clients require accommodation for income support, then we do our best to refer them to the appropriate locations, like the Sa

Question 416-14(6): Need For Emergency Shelters In Yellowknife  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, throughout my three years in this office I've always tried to do my best to conduct meetings as requested with various agencies, and I think I've met it most of the time, Mr. Speaker. When this request came through -- and I remember the requ