Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in a letter dated January 25th to the president of the Iqaluit Chamber of Commerce, the Minister states that, and I quote, "That the transfer of base-funded programs must not result in a requirement for additional financial resources." Mr. Speaker, my question to the Minister is how can additional costs not be included when you and I realize that additional staff housing will have to be found in other transferred communities, that married accommodations for students will have to be found, and that the GNWT will have to honour its responsibility to the transferred staff and purchase their houses. Which, from my information at the present time, are five instructors at approximately $150,000 a house; at the very least, an additional cost to this government of $750,000 alone in buying the transferred employees' homes.
Edward Picco on Question 1-13(2): Transfer Of Nunavut Arctic College Programs
In the Legislative Assembly on February 14th, 1996. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 1-13(2): Transfer Of Nunavut Arctic College Programs
Question 1-13(2): Transfer Of Nunavut Arctic College Programs
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 13th, 1996
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
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