Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's not a policy of Education, Culture and Employment to run schools over their stated capacity. What we do is allow our local boards to make decisions about where they place students, and that's entirely up to the boards as long as they live within the health and safety regulations. So we have a stipulated capacity. That isn't the absolute, safe capacity for having people in them or in the building. That sort of capacity would be set by the fire marshal. But as long as they live within those safety regulations, they can operate at a higher level of occupancy than what we say is the capacity of the building.
Charles Dent on Question 15-15(6): Capacity Of Yellowknife Schools
In the Legislative Assembly on March 13th, 2007. See this statement in context.
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