Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, about a year ago, the Minister of Social Development, the Honourable Ken Dryden, announced a program that would see, he said, $5 billion coming to Canadians to assist the provinces and territories in providing improved services and access to day care. However, we have, to this point, not been successful at seeing this money come to the Northwest Territories. The federal government, in this situation, has offered us nothing more than per capita funding, which wouldn't allow us to make a significant change or improvement in what we are offering in the Northwest Territories. So at this point, we are continuing to negotiate. The Premiers of the three territories have together written to the Prime Minister to protest the position that has been taken by Social Development, and we are hopeful that we will be able to resolve this so that we can see some money coming to the North. I would then hope to be able to make sure that we can improve what is being offered in early childhood education. Thank you.
Charles Dent on Question 124-15(4): Day Care Services
In the Legislative Assembly on October 17th, 2005. See this statement in context.
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