Robert Bouchard

I appreciate that commitment to communicate with Members if their projects are getting dumped back. I would recommend that to all the Ministers when they’re coming forward on this discussion. I think that’s going to be a factor I’m going to bring forward, because we’ve seen that in this deliberation of the capital budget when we’ve reviewed it, that some of those projects, those dates seems to switch and some Members are saying, when did that happen, we didn’t hear that, I didn’t hear that. If we could start to communicate that when that does happen.

Obviously, I’m concerned about, as I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions will be following my statement about northern students and student financial assistance, questions for ECE. The first question I have is I know we are dealing with students who have lived in the Northwest Territories, grew up in the Northwest Territories, have left their jurisdiction for a period of time and now have to re-establish their residency. We aren’t talking about some person coming from the South who has nothing to do with the Northwest Territories; we are talking about Northerners coming back. I want the Minister to commit to changing that...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Next on my list I have Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Committee, we’re on Capital Estimates, 2016-2017. Next I have Mr. Dolynny, followed by Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Neudorf. Mr. Blake, do you have some follow-up questions?

Thank you, Minister. We’ll go to Mr. Guy.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have a few quick comments. I’d like to give some more updates as we go along and I’ll go through some of the issues that I think are important and that I’d like to see more information on.

I was dealing with the Hay River Woodland Manor and we know that there’s an expansion being planned, being designed as we speak. Obviously, I think there’s going to be some carry-over from that money because we never broke ground this year, and if I could get an update on how that currently stands and when we expect to put the shovels to the ground for that project.

I know we’re...

I guess I have this question for Education, as well as all the other Members, and some of the other Members will ask some of the same questions. I know we’ve had meetings with the Parent Action Committee how they can make it move forward, the Ecole Boreale process, but is the department looking at ways like private partnership agreements? I know education probably hasn’t been the keenest area in to do this, but if a proposal comes forward with some private funding to put in 10 percent or 20 percent of the cost, are we looking to do that and would that move the process forward in putting it on...

Thank you. I call Committee of the Whole to order. What is the wish of committee, Ms. Bisaro?

You mentioned Ecole Boreale, and I mentioned to the Minister under general comments, and I’m just wondering about the development and the planning that we’re doing with the French schools in both Yellowknife and Hay River. We know that we’re in a situation that we’ve been told that we have to spend money. We’ve been told that we don’t have to spend as much money, but we know we’re going to have to spend money eventually in the whole system.

Are we just burying our head in the sand and ignoring this issue or are we somewhere down the line, even if it’s four or five years down the line, putting...