Thank you. Just one more area I would like to touch on, Madam Chair, and that is on maximizing northern employment or job training, whether it be in apprenticeship programs or getting people into the trades. It's an area that I've addressed a number of times over the last four years with the previous Minister of Education. At that time I got the same answer more than what I wanted to hear about. If we do it in one place we can't do it in the other. We have to do it right across the Territories. In an area such as Hay River if there's a huge interest in promoting the trades in the school, and we have a huge volunteer base there now and it's in big demand. Kids are really taking on to this. They have some work in carpentry, some work in welding, some work in automotive, but with very little resources and very little equipment to work with. Is the department still under the same impression, that there is no help for these areas? If we do it there, we have to do it right across the Territories. Are we going to find a way to help and promote in an area where there is a demand and to pick up students who are maybe falling through the cracks or whatever, if this would help? Is the department willing to look at areas where there is a demand? Thank you, Madam Chair.
Paul Delorey on Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 24th, 2004. See this statement in context.
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 23rd, 2004
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