Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm sure that the Member knows that I feel it's very important that we have aboriginal language instructors in our schools and that we support the development of them. In fact, the college has an aboriginal language and culture instructor program as part of its offerings. This government spends over $1.6 million a year on the teacher education program. The reason we do it in the Northwest Territories rather than seeing all our teachers go down south, is we want to encourage people who have language skills to learn in the North so that they can be in the schools. Part of the college program is a reinforcement of the aboriginal language and culture aspect of education. So, yes, this government does recognize how important that is, and we put an awful lot more money into training teachers than we do into training lawyers. So I would say that we've demonstrated that commitment, Mr. Speaker.
Charles Dent on Question 196-15(3): Support For Aboriginal Language Development And Training
In the Legislative Assembly on June 2nd, 2004. See this statement in context.
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Question 196-15(3): Support For Aboriginal Language Development And Training
Item 6: Oral Questions
June 1st, 2004
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