Mr. Chair, I guess maybe I will go somewhere else here for a minute and maybe come back to that.
What I’m hearing from people in the field, so to speak, that are delivering programs related to this sort of thing, I’m looking at early childhood development and so on, there’s a great concern as I think we have already heard that attention will be…because there’s not extra funding being provided for this, attention will be taken away from those with special needs and other categories of students that require a particular amount of
attention. They tell me that really it’s not so big a deal in the small communities because there is a small number of students there, so it won’t be a big impact and there is a very high per capita investment in small communities, both of those compared to the larger centres and in particular Yellowknife where there is a very large number of students. We know that the net funding will be negative, for example, for YK1, and at the same time, it will be accepting 120 new students.
An example I have heard that the Four Plus program at Weledeh school for example, a very important program. I’m sure the Minister would agree. For young children that are referred by public health or are coming from a socially disadvantaged situation, and again a great concern that that program will suffer because of the junior kindergarten, so the net benefits, again, will be low. Could the Minister explain to me again how that is going to be looked after without any investment whatsoever in the larger centres like Yellowknife? Thank you.