Ronald Bonnetrouge
Statements in Debates
Thank you, Members. We'll now return to the department summary found on page 38. Health and Social Services, 20232024 Capital Estimates, $35,904,000. Does committee agree? Member for Frame Lake.
Committee, please turn to page we'll just take a couple seconds here. Someone can't hear me up there.
Committee, we're back; everything's been straightened out. We're going to page 50, tourism and parks, with information item on page 51. And any questions from committee? Everyone found their pages, committee? Page 50, tourism and parks. Questions? Mr. Johnson.
Mahsi. Mr. Edjericon. Questions there? Okay. No further questions? ITI, infrastructure investments, $2,978,000. Does committee agree?
Mr. Heath.
Mahsi. Minister.
Mahsi for that. Any further questions from committee? Mr. O'Reilly.
Minister.
Mahsi, Madam Chair. Madam Minister, it is noted here that highways and roads take up 30 percent, the largest chunk of the budget. I'm not sure what work this all entails but every year, we're fixing up pretty much maybe same sections every year or every two years. I'm wondering you know, the reason I'm looking at this and if we and, you know, if someone could live with, if there were potholes for several years. Because the hamlet of Enterprise, it is the only community in the whole of the Northwest Territories, without a school. They've been asking, requesting for a school I think for over...
Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, through this education fiasco, I guess, we're forgetting about the district education authorities or councils in the small communities. I've been speaking to my DEA chairman for the last couple days, and they don't know what's going on in education. They're not provided any information. I think I made a statement about this before, how the DEAs and the supports they need, because I find that it's very lacking. They don't have workshops for them for roles and responsibilities or any new documents that come out, like performance measures like the Minister alludes...
Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. And I thank the Minister for that answer, and I'll hold him to many things, as I'm not done with small communities' education fiasco, and I appreciate that. Mahsi.