Thank you, Madam Chair. When you witness a recent graduate in the adult education system as I witnessed, I was getting refreshing in my math and a recent graduate was in the same classroom, but this individual was having problems with simple, simple math, like multiplications and dividing, and you expect that person to go into a trades with those kind of credentials? I don't think so. He wouldn't even make it out the door. And that's where he's going, to income support. So there has to be some kind of mechanism where the government, the community, the teachers, have to find some kind of mechanism to make this thing work, make this education system work so that they're not going to follow this income security and make a living out of it because the majority of these students are making a living out of it. They're staying home. They're still staying with their parents. They're 20, 30 years old. That's not a lifestyle. And probably 90 percent of these people are Indigenous. And that's what bothers me. This government is imposing -- not imposing but giving them this option of living this kind of lifestyle. And it starts with education from code of conduct to grade 12. Is that going to be looked at seriously and make promotional -- socially promoting our students a thing of the past so we can have a viable workforce in our -- within our smaller communities? It's the smaller communities that's hurting. Thank you, Madam Chair.
George Nerysoo on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 25th, 2025. See this statement in context.
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 25th, 2025
See context to find out what was said next.