Question 258-16(3): Income Support Workers And Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing  Certainly I can commit today to provide that detailed information.

Tabled Document 22-16(3): Towards Excellence: A Report On Education In The NWT  Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Towards Excellence: A Report on Education in the NWT. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Motion 15-16(3): Transfer Of Responsibility For Social Housing Carried  Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I do appreciate all the Members’ comments on this particular item. It has been a true discussion that we have been having here. The transfer of the program itself since 2005, it has been four years now. We are, as I stated earlier, making progress. We have com

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Yes, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to present the 2009-2010 Main Estimates for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Our vision of northern people leading fulfilled lives and contributing to a strong and prosperous society is the driving force for where we are going

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Yes, Mr. Chair.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Mahsi, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, to my left is Dan Daniels, deputy minister of Education, Culture and Employment, and to my right is Mr. Paul Devitt, director of strategic and business services. Mahsi, Mr. Chair.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Mahsi, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, certainly the early childhood has been brought up. We certainly will get into more detailed information at a later time, but certainly this is one of the areas where there are no impacts on the services on a moving-forward basis. There is sufficient

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. That funding has been identified to cover or offset the overall public rental subsidy area.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  This is revenue that’s coming from outside, but there is another $15 million that’s coming from within the GNWT itself.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  That information clearly highlights on page 10-27 the $33.967 million for public housing rental subsidies.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. That $265,000 is from Human Resources and Social Development Canada funding to support early childhood and child care program.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. Through that process we’re going to, through Aurora College, we’re going to do a review of the early childhood program delivery. That’s the area we’ll be focusing on as an efficiency.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Certainly there won’t be any impact on the front-line workers. It’s just that we’re conducting a review of the program, so there’s no impact on our services that we provide currently.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. The strategy I was referring to is at the preliminary stages where we need to eliminate the student achievement gap. That is one area that we need to identify non-aboriginal and aboriginal students for the Northwest Territories. We will be working within the

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  That specific strategy that we are pursuing is from internal funding.