Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I said a couple of days ago in the House, we have about $138 or $139 million in our budget this year to provide to education councils and district education authorities to provide school services in the Northwest Territories. This amount represents the equivalent of a $4.2 million decrease in total funding for schools in the '97-98 school year based on what forced growth would normally require or increased resource demands. Have I looked specifically at the impact of other cuts in the Beaufort Delta? The answer is no. What the department has done is it has tried to make sure that the formula for providing funding to divisional education councils is consistent and fair across the north. We cannot very well say to the Baffin board that we are going to make them take a bigger cut than the Beaufort Delta board because they have not had as many cuts from MACA, or vice versa. The issue is providing education for our children in the north and we have to look at it in as fair and balanced a way as we can from that basis. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Charles Dent on Question 495-13(4): Budget Cuts To Beaufort Delta Region
In the Legislative Assembly on May 29th, 1997. See this statement in context.
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Question 495-13(4): Budget Cuts To Beaufort Delta Region
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 28th, 1997
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