Jane Groenewegen
Statements in Debates
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I believe in deleting this, we have not failed to speak of the wages because further down in the motion it says that early childhood education workers be recognized as education professionals and paid wages accordingly. I think that covers the issue of the pay. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I did not speak to the motion, now that we’re back to the motion.
Mr. Speaker, in the whereas, and it says “and whereas early childhood education workers are professionals that should be paid the same wages as our teachers,” I have an issue with that because I don’t know what the early childhood education requirements are for credentials to teach early childhood education compared to teachers. I am pretty sure that teachers need some kind of a degree. I don’t know how long it takes to get a diploma or certificate in early childhood education.
So, we are now telling all...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister, very succinctly, what option does this government have, other than to comply with the court order, to spend the money and build the gymnasium for Ecole Boreale in Hay River? Thank you.
I, like my colleague, would also like to know what money we’ve already spent on looking at the school swap and what kind of money we have spent trying to fight building a gymnasium for Ecole Boreale. I mean, that would be an interesting number and I hope that the Minister could possibly be forthcoming with that. I think we should stop spending that money and we should start spending money on planning to build a new facility.
The deadline, again, that my colleague spoke of, Minister Lafferty refers to March 24th. I would like to ask the Minister, is there a date before that, even within the next...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I hope I live to be 99 years old.
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Thank you. We will commence with that after a brief break.
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I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order this afternoon. I could read that list of documents, but I think I’ll just say there are numerous items before the committee today. I’d like to ask what is the wish of the committee. Ms. Bisaro.
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Is committee agreed?
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. General comments. Next I have Mr. Bouchard.
Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. So, we had left off on general comments. I believe Mr. Yakeleya was not finished on Thursday, so I will go to Mr. Yakeleya first.