David Ramsay

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’ll ask the Minister a question more close to home. In Yellowknife, how many apprentices are there and how many apprenticeship officers are there?

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Hawkins.

Let's go to the capital acquisition book and we'll start on page 7-4. Page 7-4, education and culture, infrastructure investment summary, total net book value and work in progress, $137.050 million.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Zoe.

Total department, $19.021 million.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’ll try to get in as much as I can before the Minister starts.

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I just want to start off with saying I know how important advanced education and careers are to people, but what I think happened in the mid-1990s is starting to come back to haunt the Northwest Territories, and that is funding was at such a level where it came out of schools and basically I believe the education system got it in the mid-90s and the first things to go when dollars were tight were things like industrial arts, music, home economics and now it’s kind of come full circle. We’re...

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Minister.