Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a motion that I would like to give a special endorsement to. So much of the discussion that we've had here in the Assembly -- and I haven't had time to read the report but I'm sure it's reflected in there -- stresses the need for communities and our daily environment to see language applied, to see it surrounding us, to see us immersed in it in as many ways as possible if language is going to be enhanced, indeed, if it's going to survive. Government's ability to foster this kind of thing is there, it's somewhat limited especially in the areas of broadcast media, Madam Chair, especially radio and television which are ubiquitous in our society. They are ever present, they are 24-hours a day, they are easily accessible. With a good radio, Madam Chair, you can be in touch with the world virtually anywhere at all in the NWT. We already have existing infrastructure in organizations like the CKLB radio network and the Aboriginal Peoples' Television Network. Here in Yellowknife -- I don't know if it is elsewhere in the territory, Madam Chair -- the French community has a radio station; Radio Taiga. We have print. Here is where I think there's an especially accessible and I also believe an economical way of getting much, much more delivery and use of language across to our many different language communities. So as I say, Madam Chair, I just wanted to add that comment to this recommendation -- recommendation 59 -- which I would encourage the government to look at with special attention because it is, I think, one that offers a real deliverability to this whole issue of language survival in the North. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Bill Braden on Committee Motion 71-14(6): To Accept Recommendation No. 59 Of Committee Report 9-14(6), Scol Final Report, Carried
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Committee Motion 71-14(6): To Accept Recommendation No. 59 Of Committee Report 9-14(6), Scol Final Report, Carried
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