Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Referring to student financial assistance, in the review that is under way in this area, will some consideration be given to decentralizing the administration of these grants to regions? Students in the Baffin region are in school often in Ottawa or maritime provinces. There are a number of them in smaller universities like Wolfville, Nova Scotia, or Mount St. Vincent's in Nova Scotia, Trent in Ontario, et cetera. They seem to have even more difficulties with time and distance and communicating with the very hard working people in the student financial assistance office in Yellowknife. My feeling is that it might be an option to look at having this function regionalized to some extent, where, I would suspect, people in the regions would know the students, their school history and perhaps know better how to help them if they are having a personal or financial crisis. I would like to ask that general question. I think it has worked well with the moves that have been made with child care. I would like to ask if that is being considered for student financial assistance administration. Thank you.
Dennis Patterson on Bill 1: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1994-95Committee Report 2-12(5): Review Of The 1994-95 Main Estimates
In the Legislative Assembly on March 15th, 1994. See this statement in context.
Bill 1: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1994-95Committee Report 2-12(5): Review Of The 1994-95 Main Estimates
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 14th, 1994
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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit
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