Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to apologize to my fellow colleagues for not being here yesterday. I was in Lutselk'e on the invitation of the chief and councillor, Archie Catholique, who participated in a public meeting with De Beers Diamonds Inc, Canada. As Mr. Antoine, it takes those of us who represent communities outside of Yellowknife a long way to fly and it takes a long time. Once you are there, you try to cover as many homes and see as many people as possible, but there is never enough time, Mr. Speaker.
There was a good meeting in Lutselk'e, an initial discussion between De Beers and the community on the Snap Lake project. When I was there, something came to mind. It was very obvious again, Mr. Speaker. I covered this in the House in the last session, which deals with required daycares in the community. It deals with mining and it deals with employment and it deals with education and it deals with health. If you do not have the proper facilities to take care of your children while you are at work, then it is pretty hard to make it to work and it is putting pressures on the organizations in the communities to do a good job on behalf of their people.
A lot of people from the communities are working out of town and you may not have a lot of single parents, but there is a single parent-like atmosphere in the community where mothers or fathers are working in town and have a hard time with babysitters. I am going to be asking the Minister responsible for Education, Culture & Employment what he is doing about helping communities establish day cares so that people could get to work, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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