Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we stand up in this House day after day raising issues to the government, to departments such as Education, trying to get programs, logical programs moved down to the community and regional level, trying to get clear answers for our constituents in what is often a very frustrating kind of process.
Mr. Speaker, tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians passed on from generation to generation says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
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Unfortunately, in modern education in government, a whole range of far more advanced strategies is often employed, such as:
- • buying a stronger whip;
- • changing the riders;
- • threatening the horse with termination;
- • appointing a committee to study the horse;
- • arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses;
- • lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included;
- • reclassifying the dead horses as living impaired;
- • hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse;
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- • harnessing several dead horses together to increase their speed;
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- • providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance;
- • doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance;
- • declaring that dead horses do not have to be fed, are less costly, carry no overhead and therefore contribute substantially more to the bottom line of the economy, as do some other horses;
- • rewriting the expected performance requirements for all dead horses; or finally, Mr. Speaker
- • promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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