I know Minister was out earlier today, I believe, or perhaps that’s coming up that he’s doing a presentation at the school. So I’m hoping he will have an opportunity to look directly at the scho
ol himself. I know he’s familiar with it.
I guess I would ask when we might expect to see some of those things happen that are under discussion and if the Minister will commit to getting a new school on the capital plan for Detah. Partly the situation is that without having a proper facility there, parents are having to bus their children into Yellowknife. As an example, I met, at a constituency meeting a couple of days ago, with a family with teenage daughters who get bussed in, but the bus leaves at such a time and school starts at such a time that these kids are left sort of footloose and fancy-free in Yellowknife for an hour, and that’s plenty of time to get into trouble. I think I certainly would have if I had that opportunity at that age.
This is a sep
arate community; it’s recognized as a
separate community and we need to recognize that in providing appropriate facilities. The same thing goes for housing, which is another topic. But we don’t want people moving away from their families because we don’t have proper facilities there. So, there are a couple of questions there. Maybe I’ll just mention the hope, or seek a commitment to also get Aurora College Yellowknife Campus on the capital plan. I know perhaps the Minister has toured that building, as committees have, and it is one crowded facility. We can’t expect them to be doing
good work in those sorts of quarters for very long. Thank you, Mr. Chair.