Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question to the Minister is in regard to the whole area of developing skills in the school system. Students in school can also have an opportunity to not only learn the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, but also hand skills in regard to developing sewing and mechanical skills by working with small engine mechanics, wood skills of carpentry, et cetera, while they are still attending school and then off into high school. When they have the choice of what they want to become later on in life, at least they can have some basic skills of how to take a motor apart or how to build a boat and also be able to sew. Those skills would be with them for the rest of their lives. A lot of people will not finish high school. At least this gives them the ability to go out there and find a job, either starting off as a labourer, but also knowing that they are able to take on these things. I would like to ask the Minister, why is it there are differences between smaller communities and the larger centres, when it comes to delivering such programs within the curriculum of the education systems, especially in the north? Why is there a difference? Why is everybody not treated the same when it comes to delivery of educational programs, especially when it comes to mechanical programs in the schools such as workshops and whatever?
David Krutko on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 2nd, 1998
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