Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today my question is to the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. I just wanted to ask the Minister about another initiative that the local youth in Fort Resolution have taken upon themselves to try and get resolved. I am talking about the youth centre that has been sitting on the blocks and has been boarded up for the last year-and-a-half. The community is still struggling with dollars to open up the youth centre. They were given $80,000 about a year ago by the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs to buy a building, move it, and refinish it and open it up for a youth centre. Mr. Speaker, $80,000 doesn't buy a youth centre in any community, especially when you have things like architectural costs which are required to meet government standards, taking out a big chunk of that money, leaving the community with a little pot of money which they really can't do anything with. It is either you have all the money to hire a contractor to do all the work, or you just don't do any at all. It seems like the youth in the community are basically taking on another infrastructure improvement initiative in their own hands, something that this government should be addressing. I just want to ask the Minister what his department is willing to commit as far as extra funding in the likes of $40,000 to seeing this youth centre becoming a reality in this year. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Robert Villeneuve on Question 267-15(3): Funding For Fort Resolution Youth Centre
In the Legislative Assembly on October 20th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Question 267-15(3): Funding For Fort Resolution Youth Centre
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 19th, 2004
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