I find this very frustrating. I do. Because this is such an important issue, and we look at -- you know, we regularly have -- we approve supplementals for infrastructure projects that are tens of millions of dollars over budget that we either mismanaged or got out of control. We can blame COVID and so on and so forth. And something like this, something like this that's just so important, to keep professional people in our territory, not only providing the services of -- whether it be doctors or nurses or teachers or lawyers or child care workers, but also coaching our kids in hockey and buying the groceries at our grocery stores and things like that that I've railed on about in this legislature about keeping people here, keeping those tax dollars here, to me, again, if we require $7 million, that $7 million should be there, full stop, and we find that money. And I get it. We've got tough decisions to make but this shouldn't be one of them. We should make sure that we have adequate child care for anybody who wants to live in this North, in the territories. And then does the department have a plan for looking at the additional spaces that we need over and above that as well? I mean, you said we had 1,956, 308 in the Beaufort Delta. Again, and I know it's anecdotal, I know we don't track that, but we do know we need it. I hear it from other Members, and I hear it from members in the community. What would be a long-term plan to ensure that we're, again, looking at investing in more facilities and increasing those spaces? Thank you.
Denny Rodgers 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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