Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister is bound and determined, regardless of the facts, to proceed with implementing Junior Kindergarten in all communities. Please reconsider, please take those resources and direct them to where there are no options for early childhood development in some of the smaller communities, and please don’t with your wide-sweeping approach, ruin a good thing that’s going on in the larger and the regional centres.
Please, would the Minister tell me how he expects the larger schools and the larger communities, and even in the smaller communities, according to my colleague from the Mackenzie Delta, how do you expect the schools and the DEAs to do this with no additional resources? I mean, providing money for a water-table and a sand-table, I’m sorry, it’s not going to cut it. It takes people and it takes specifically specialized, educated people to deliver the Junior Kindergarten program. That’s not going to work. It’s going to cost a lot of money and it’s going to do a lot of harm. I’d like to ask the Minister, how does he expect the DEAs to do more with less. Thank you.