Question 410-14(6): Temporary Retention Of Miramar Con Mine Employees  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as a territorial government, our Ministers have been coordinated through the Premier who has been chairing several meetings. We've had Mr. Dent as part of our committee, and we've involved the mayor from time to time, and included the union

Question 410-14(6): Temporary Retention Of Miramar Con Mine Employees  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, as I say, Mr. Speaker, we first have to update ourselves on what action has been taken, what the union has entered into discussions here with the corporation itself and what the plans of the corporation are; timeframe and so forth. We can provide an

Question 410-14(6): Temporary Retention Of Miramar Con Mine Employees  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's a good question, Mr. Speaker. Naturally we want to ensure that we maximize, to the best possibilities, all of the employees that are at Con at the moment who have been employed by Miramar, to ensure that they are able to maximize their pensions and

Question 410-14(6): Temporary Retention Of Miramar Con Mine Employees  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I understand that the company has transferred a number of employees to the Giant Mine operation, and I'm not sure what the company's plans are with respect to the reclamation of the site and whether company employees are there for the long te

Question 405-14(6): Addressing Special Needs In NWT Classrooms  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The DECs are restricted, Mr. Speaker. Other than we have initiated a school improvement project for student success, and we're doing this on a pilot basis in seven different districts. Each one chose a school to do a specific project, which could be an

Question 405-14(6): Addressing Special Needs In NWT Classrooms  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'll have to check into this, Mr. Speaker, to see what we can do in terms of further collaboration with the Department of Health and Social Services in many areas, because it's not just in speech therapy it's also school psychologists and so forth. Thank

Question 405-14(6): Addressing Special Needs In NWT Classrooms  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on the working level on each district, I'm not sure what kind of collaboration is taking place. I know that, as I mentioned, strong on the early childhood. I would have to check to see what is taking place on the collaboration with Health a

Question 405-14(6): Addressing Special Needs In NWT Classrooms  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our efforts have been on two fronts. One was to reduce the PTR, as the Member knows, and the other is in special needs. We increased funding substantially for schools in that area, from eight percent to 15 percent, Mr. Speaker, to assist st

Question 404-14(6): NWT Graduation Rates  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The graduation is based on the amount of courses that the individual takes, and they have to write examinations and we follow the Alberta process of examinations. Just on that, Mr. Speaker, I should mention that our outlook is that in 2003 we should cont

Question 404-14(6): NWT Graduation Rates  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, not to my knowledge, Mr. Speaker, it has not been watered down by any means and that's my current knowledge. Thank you.

Question 404-14(6): NWT Graduation Rates  Yes, Mr. Speaker, we did do some initial checking and there was a higher than normal graduation rate in the South Slave, in Fort Smith and Hay River, I believe. That caused the blip, but it's back to normal. It's somewhat related to enrolment figures, as well, Mr. Speaker. I s

Question 404-14(6): NWT Graduation Rates  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do have the information and I have further information here, as well, which I could share with the Member after, Mr. Speaker. The trend has been fairly steady. There was a blip in 2001 where there was a substantial increase in graduation. Then all of

Item 5: Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's also a great pleasure for me to recognize the people who run our aboriginal head start programs here in the Northwest Territories. They do a great job and I believe there may be two other people here, Mr. Speaker. Irene Gruben and Margery Matheson. I

Minister's Statement 102-14(6): GNWT Response To Miramar Con Mine  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I rise today to advise my colleagues of the actions being taken by the Government of the Northwest Territories to assist the workers affected by the Miramar Con Mine closure. Mr. Speaker, with the Premier and my Cabinet colleagues, we have coordinated e

Question 397-14(6): Status Of The NWT Arts Strategy  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The arts panel brought forward recommendations in seven areas, Mr. Speaker, some of which we have been able to initiate as we have been developing the response to the arts panel report. Others are more complicated and will require a funding process and i