Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I understand approximately 5,000 documents were printed. When I look at this document, I find it fairly complex. I wonder what level of education it would take to understand this document? I ask this question in relation to discussions we have had over the past two days on the level of education in the communities and in the territories in general. I note, and I believe Mr. Erasmus, my honourable colleague from Yellowknife North quoted these figures in the past couple of days. It suggests that 60 percent of Canadians do not have the skills to handle most of the written material they see every day. Another 22 percent can only cope with simple reading tasks. That is a total of 38 percent of Canadians in general. In my ridings which in a lot of cases, English is the second language, out of these 5,000 copies that the Constitutional Working Group printed, how many do they actually expect to have read, based on the education level in the territories? Thank you.
Vince Steen on Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
In the Legislative Assembly on May 27th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Supplementary To Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 26th, 1998
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