Wendy Bisaro
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I have nobody else on my list. Does committee agree on page 11-17, activity summary, airports, operations expenditure summary, $28.677 million?
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I note that there is an increase in positions in Yellowknife under education and culture. Could I be advised what two positions have been added? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Ramsay.
Welcome back, committee. Mr. Minister, you have witnesses to return to the House?
Mr. Blake has no further questions. Who is next on my list? Mr. Hawkins.
Thanks to the Minister for the commitment to look into this. I guess I would like to ask either the Minister or his delegation if they can tell me what the distinction is, the difference between these two. I know the Minister read it out but he said that is the difference. Well, they don’t sound very different to me except the titles are different. If he could give me any more information at this time, that would be appreciated. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Ramsay.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have just a question. There is an increase of it looks like $200,000 or so. It is for buildings and works, from what I can tell. Could I get an explanation as to what that money is going to be used for? Thank you.
Mr. Neudorf, please.
I’ll try and rephrase the question. I’m not wanting to know what training principals take. I think it’s similar to the previous situation we had with homelessness where it was done off the corner of somebody’s desk. I see that counselling within many small schools is something that’s done off the corner of somebody’s desk. They have other jobs and other priorities and this is one thing that gets added on to the many other jobs that they do. Sometimes it’s a principal but sometimes it’s another teacher. So to give the training only to principals will not solve the problem.
What I’m suggesting is...