Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I said, we are prepared to work with every community. This government doesn't have the money right now. We were hoping to get a bunch of money from the federal government, but so far they have been stalling us and we don't have the money to build day care centres. So we have to work with people in the communities to try and find solutions. In some communities we can find space in buildings, like in Fort Smith, the Aurora College has provided space. In other communities there are other solutions, but we're prepared to work with each community to help them find ways to develop day cares, but it's going to have to be a partnership, Mr. Speaker. I don't think we're going to have the money to take on complete ownership. I know that the Member will be aware that at a public hearing last week, we had an activist from Yellowknife who said that she didn't believe that this government should be institutionalizing kids, that we should be supporting parents to do the job that parents should do first. Thank you.
Charles Dent on Question 141-15(4): Day Care Services
In the Legislative Assembly on October 17th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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