Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Then I take it that the Department of Education will be developing a new method of capital planning. In other words, I suspect that Chesterfield is an acute situation, but it's not an exception. Under the old criteria, a lot of schools, including Pond Inlet, are in overcrowded situations. What I'm trying to get at here is that this particular capital plan on education has no significant increase with all the significant enrolment. Some students who have dropped out before are coming back to school and the birthrate is twice as much as the national average. It has surprised the department that kids are also enroling in kindergarten and the students are coming back after the grade extension program has been introduced. Will there be a more relevant budget made so that we should not relegate ourselves to the 1994-95 capital estimate but completely drop this idea and put in a new fresh approach to capital planning on education.
James Arvaluk on Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on December 1st, 1993. See this statement in context.
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
November 30th, 1993
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James Arvaluk Aivilik
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