Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to welcome the Minister and his staff to the proceedings this afternoon. Welcome. I am very glad to see that the department has gone forward with this initiative on increasing the limit from $47,000 to $60,000. I just wanted to mention to the Minister that I think this is a step in the right direction, but perhaps what we should be looking at is setting up a separate fund for post-graduate studies specifically for law school, med school and other post-graduate initiatives so that residents here...The cost is continuing to increase. Tuition fees across the country are going up, especially for post-graduate studies. I think it's important that the ministry of Education, Culture and Employment have an eye to the future and try to ensure that if our students want to go to med school, they want to go to law school, they want to take post-graduate studies, there is a program there. I believe the government should be funding students, if they are going to come back here, similar to the exercise that we have in place now, the remission program. It should be available for post-graduate studies, too. I think we should be funding anybody who wants to go to school and wants to come back to the Northwest Territories to work. I think a program like that for post-graduate studies would be much welcomed. Thank you.
David Ramsay on Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on August 16th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
August 16th, 2007
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