Yes, I do, Mr. Chairman. The Minister made an interesting comment I would like to follow up on. I'm not trying to do it verbatim, but the gist of the comment was it would provide an opportunity for students if they were better educated to move to other communities to take up employment. I think it's fair to say that most parents would like to see their children educated in their home community and I think it's fair to say that in the wage economy in which we find ourselves in the Northwest Territories, one of the basic principles of operating within a wage economic is exactly what you said, moving to where the jobs are. Would it not help and would it not be an educational experience if we could have up to, say, grade 10 in communities where students would have to move a community that was maybe a little larger to take their grades 11 and 12 to also help them to ease into that transition of the wage economy where they may have to move to where jobs are? Would that not help facilitate that? I would suggest that I have heard comments many times from students in my own community going on to further education and a large number of them drop out because going to a larger community is extremely difficult to deal with. Would it not be part of the educational process encouraging some of these students to go to larger communities and put the dollars into helping most students get used to being in a different community and moving in the wage economy to where the jobs are at.
Seamus Henry on Bill 11: Appropriation Act, 1996-97
In the Legislative Assembly on May 6th, 1996. See this statement in context.
Bill 11: Appropriation Act, 1996-97
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
May 5th, 1996
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Seamus Henry Yellowknife South
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