Jane Groenewegen

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 1-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditure), No. 1, 2014-2015, and would like to report progress with one motion being adopted, that consideration of Tabled Document 1-17(5) is concluded and that the House concur with those estimates and an appropriation bill to be based thereon be introduced without delay. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. What is the wish of committee? Ms. Bisaro.

Question is being called.

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I’d like to ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witness from the Chamber. Does committee agree that concludes our business in Committee of the Whole?

Thank you. I’m very happy to hear the Minister say this will not be a broad-sweep approach, because sometimes when the Department of Education comes out with new initiatives, they expect all teachers to take some new approach and best practices and basically have to revamp the way that they are educating the students in their classrooms and sometimes it’s more disruptive than helpful, to tell you the truth. At least from what I hear from them.

If we’re not going to take the broad-brush approach to the implementation of this Education Renewal Initiative, I would like to ask the Minister by what...

Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have some questions for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment on the Education Renewal Initiative. For some reason, as I’ve raised in this House many times before, it seems it’s our educators on the front line who are discouraged from expressing their opinion on a lot of things, and for what reason, I do not know because I would say they are in the best position to help us put together the best policies and practices to educate our children. I’d like to, for the record, ask the Minister if there was extensive consultation directly with educators for this...

Thank you, Premier McLeod. Next on the list for general comments is Minister Abernethy.

Thank you. Anything further to the motion?

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. General comments. The next person I have on my list is Minister Miltenberger.