Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, on educational development, looking at policies and trying to get money in place, one of the biggest knocks against the Department of Education through the years has been the planning of the department. Later on, when we get to the detail of educational development, you will see we are continuing to renovate and put on additions to schools. To me, that is poor planning. We build a school today, in two years it is too small. Can we not project, in this year 1997, ahead and say if we build a school, 5,000 square feet, that in two years we are going to need 7,200 square feet, so we should have an allowance made for that. What happens eventually, we keep bringing portables and we add additions to everything. In some cases, the school is too small after it has been built. I wonder if the department has looked at their planning, under educational development. Have they conferred with the communities? Do they follow the demographics and the population increases so when they build schools, we do not continue to be in the same process of having to add onto them two years later? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Edward Picco on Committee Motion 24-13(4): Recommendation For Withdrawal Of Layoff Notices To Interpreters/translators
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 24-13(4): Recommendation For Withdrawal Of Layoff Notices To Interpreters/translators
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 24th, 1997
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
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