Thank you, Mr. Chair. I welcome the Minister and his staff. I appreciate this opportunity. I think I support many of the comments I heard from my colleague Ms. Bisa
ro. I’m happy to
see some of the work going on in our schools in the smaller communities, Lutselk’e certainly and some of the others that have been mentioned already. I am very glad to see the sewer line finally being fixed at Sir John Franklin. That’s something that’s been there for years and I know has been an issue.
Again, I appreciate the Minister putting forward some planning money for a couple of Yellowknife schools that are long overdue.
I just want to make sure the Minister heard my comments earlier about the need to actually provide a new school in Detah, replace the Kaw Tay Whee structure which is a couple of portable units established there about 30 years ago. Since then they’ve gone from a few classes up to 10 classes and it’s a four-room school. So Kaw Tay Whee is not able to have any longer the language and culture program they used to have because there is
simply not the space to do that. So, again, four rooms, 10 classes.
In association with that, the Detah school, Kaw Tay Whee, does not have a sprinkler system and I would like to ask the Minister, is that not a standard for our schools? Should our schools not have sprinkler systems to ensure the safety of our children? Mahsi.