Jane Groenewegen
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Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Guy.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Beaulieu.
Okay. Please proceed with your motion, Mr. Bromley.
Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Page 65, education and culture, operations expenditure summary, $244.200 million. Next on the list I have Mr. Bromley.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Lafferty.
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Does the committee agree?
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Ms. Eggenhofer.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Monday, March 9, 2015, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that, pursuant to Rule 88(1), the Legislative Assembly hereby establish a Special Committee on Transition Matters;
And further, that the following Members be named to the special committee:
the Member for Sahtu, Mr. Norman Yakeleya, chair;
the Member for Hay River North, Mr. Robert Bouchard;
the Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Alfred Moses;
the Member for Kam Lake, Mr. David Ramsay;
the Member for Range Lake, Mr. Daryl Dolynny...
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Lafferty.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. I was having a chat with my 25-year-old daughter the other day and not that she was a top student, but she was bemoaning the fact to me that she’s 25 years old, she’s a young adult, she’s living here in the North and she doesn’t know much about savings, budgeting, credit, banking and that she feels that she should have maybe learned something about that in school. Now, I know there’s a role for parents to play, too, in teaching these things, but I’d like seriously to ask the Minister of Education...