Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be supporting this motion here, and I’ll share some information just to justify, as my previous speakers mentioned. In the speech that I said last week, in Norman Wells, at the current situation, I met two families. The man is bringing home the paycheques and the wife was working, and she can't work now because they can't find daycare services or homecare services. There’s two families right there who lost out on market paycheques coming in. We also had a daycare centre, and for whatever reason, it's not open. But at the current moment, it is a nice building. As I mentioned last week as well, it's a community initiative, well built, well put together, lots of toys inside for the kids, and so on. but it sits there dormant right now, just collecting snow, waiting for this motion to get active so we can reopen the doors. For those experiences and thoughts that I went to the houses on, and there are many others in the other communities as well across the NWT where spouses are experiencing that. For those reasons and other reasons, I will support the motion. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Daniel McNeely on Committee Motion 15-18(2): Tabled Document 1-18(2): Proposed Mandate Of The Government Of The Northwest Territories, 2016-2019, Replacement Of Text Regarding Universal Day Care, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 15-18(2): Tabled Document 1-18(2): Proposed Mandate Of The Government Of The Northwest Territories, 2016-2019, Replacement Of Text Regarding Universal Day Care, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 24th, 2016
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