Jane Groenewegen

Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Included in this rollout, will there be a defined reporting, monitoring, so that we can see what this new initiative is accomplishing? We need to measure the outcomes of these things that we roll out and that we initiate. So I’d like to ask the Minister, will that be clearly included in this initiative so that we can be reported back to on how it is affecting the statistics. Thank you.

Thank you. The motion is in order. To the motion.

As a government, we come up with new initiatives from time to time; maybe all the time, I’m not sure. The Minister has made mention of the Aboriginal Student Achievement Initiative and now this, with the Education Renewal Initiative. We have heard some pretty dire statistics on the preparedness of students and even ongoing statistics. I would like to suggest to you that those statistics are not prevalent in all communities, in all schools and in all regions. I would say those statistics do exist, but I would say there are schools where there is a lot of success.

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Agreed. Does committee agree that we have now concluded consideration of Tabled Document 1-17(5)?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to also recognize two Pages from Hay River that have been helping us out in the Legislative Assembly this week: Hannah Courtoreille and Tori Blake. I’d like to thank them for good work.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Next I have Premier McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. To the motion. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I absolutely do not support this motion. That is the biggest cop-out. Furthermore, we should not be discussing this today. We have just had a very good and valuable debate for the last four and a half hours. I’m sorry; I completely disagree with anybody saying that they wasted four hours of their life. This was a good debate. We didn’t all end up agreeing. We will not always agree. Just because it’s consensus government does not mean that we will not represent differences of opinion. But this was a good and fulsome debate, and we will debate it again with it comes...