Madam Chair, they’re going to install a sewer tank. They’re doing it during the
winter and it’s cold. You know, it’s difficult. It’s going to cost probably more; I’m not too sure. They had all summer to do it. I don’t know what as part of the deferred maintenance or what happened. The community has been trying to work with this government for a long time. It’s been years. I find it hard for the Minister to say we’re trying to work with the community to get this in our community, especially at the school so those 53 kids that have to go through this system. There are only two honey buckets in the school. We’re not even talking about the health centre. I know the community wants to move on it. They have the sewer truck. It’s being used at the band hall. It’s being used at the bed and breakfast. They’re using it. I think you have to have somebody from DPW actually to go into Colville Lake and work with them. The community wants to work with them. I guess I’m having a hard time trying to follow the paperwork. It doesn’t quite jive with what’s actually happening in Colville Lake. I guess that’s the saying; that the job’s not done until the paperwork is there.
I am trying to follow this, Madam Chair. It is just hard to understand. I hope that the Minister will dispatch some of the workers to go into Colville Lake and say this is what we can do. It’s a shame. Fifty-three kids can go another whole year without proper running washroom facilities. It is unheard of in this day and age.
I’m not going to talk too much on my frustration. The Minister knows. DPW knows. This government knows. This seems to be a really difficult time to put in washrooms or get the Minister to talk about other departments that also need to coordinate. We are a small government. I don’t know why it is so hard to coordinate a small project like putting a proper washroom into the health centre. It’s deplorable. I am speaking out my frustration there, Madam Chair.
The teachers have to be commended. Maybe to get the government to work faster, maybe we can put an extra two more honey buckets in that school. That will be four. At least we can speed it up, but it is frustrating, I guess. Some speak on their frustration that these kids in kindergarten to a higher grade. It doesn’t seem to faze all of us over here because we don’t have that situation here. If that was something that happened in this Legislative Assembly, we would be up in arms. In Colville Lake the parents are screaming the same way. I just want to leave it at that. It doesn’t matter if the Minister responds or not.