Thank you, Madam Chair. Just give you a little bit of history. April, when we left the House, my mayor of Tuk called me. He was asking me to take the lead on it in regards to it. So I sourced out the land. I sourced out the trailers. I sourced everything out. Did all that work for our government. Had a commitment in this House for two trailers. I tried to get four but I only got two. And all of a sudden when it's time to purchase the trailers for the community because we're -- they're looking at adult ed -- taking away from the community. They were at the time. They were going to take away the gym -- hamlet chambers, the one church in the community and one classroom at the adult ed. I don't know where that's at right now because we don't know. So that's the first time it ever happened to me in the Legislative Assembly since I was first elected in 2007 the first time, the first go around, that any Minister that promised me something that fell through. I'm really disappointed. I brought them, both Ministers into the community, to see where we're at of getting trailers. So basically, we came in. We said we'd work towards it. Then all of a sudden, we're making good headway, then it all stops. We have problems with the contractor having not enough people working on the school. Now they're making a tunnel in from the school into the gym to where they're going to have kids going to school in a construction site. So anywhere else that we've done schools -- we did one here in Yellowknife. They had eight or ten portables brought in from the south sitting here that are going into another project in Behchoko. I know that. What's the difference between Tuk, Behchoko, and Yellowknife for that project? Tell me. Just for getting proper safety of students in my riding. To me, this is a total fail. I'm thankful for the school. I'm very thankful because the first time I ever brought this project up was in '07 because I had 38 staff using one bathroom. And now the school looks beautiful. We had a tour with the Ministers and that, it's going to be a beautiful school. But at the end of the day, though, it's the safety of the kids that are my concern. It's the safety of my leadership back home. We had meetings. Why aren't we able to get these portables into the community? Even two of them. Why? Thank you, Madam Chair.
Jackie Jacobson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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