Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't think the Minister understood my question. My question is, we know that many school boards in the Inuvik area, Delta, Yellowknife for sure -- I don't know in other areas -- have been delivering full-time kindergarten programs, even though they have not been funded, even though it's actually illegal, really, technically speaking, because there was no legislation to say that. Now we're saying you can have a kindergarten program if you want to. But this only says minimum half time, or maximum full-time kindergarten. We're not saying, "Have full-time kindergarten." I guess one way of doing that, is because then we are only required to pay half of the kindergarten and not full time. But we're saying that you can have full-time kindergarten, but we're going to only legitimize half-time kindergarten; therefore, we're only going to pay for half-time kindergarten, knowing fully, and we are implicit in this, and we're condoning this, knowing fully that the school boards are not going to have money to, technically, deliver full-time kindergarten programming, and they have to take the money from elsewhere. So we're not exactly doing what we say we want to do and what we say we're doing. So I don't think we're going all the way. Thank you.
Sandy Lee on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 21st, 2005. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 20th, 2005
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