Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The responsible thing is for me to make it very clear and be honest to my colleagues in this Assembly, and to those who are responsible for managing educational programs, about the financial situation that we're in. We cannot continue to offer the kinds of resources that are presently available. The fact is that in one particular residence, there are 19 staff members and 15 students. Now I don't know how in the world the honourable Member can rise in this House and say that there should be more staff members than there are students. I would have thought that the honourable Member would be encouraging me to invest more money in the students and to appropriately identify those resources for other programs that will encourage better programming for students, and that's what we're trying to do. In the process itself -- and the honourable Member may say that there's a reduction in the commitment; and, yes, but it has to do with how we invest the resources. We're taking it away from pure infrastructure, pure staffing to that of investing in the students themselves. The question is how do we do it. That is the question that needs to be answered. Our intention is that if there's a need for us to maintain some of the residences, we will do it; but it will not be at the kinds of expenditures that we're presently making on staffing because we have to spend the money on the students.
Richard Nerysoo on Question 58-12(7): Status Of Study Re Student Residences
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 1995. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 58-12(7): Status Of Study Re Student Residences
Question 58-12(7): Status Of Study Re Student Residences
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 14th, 1995
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
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