Wendy Bisaro

I guess I have to assume, since the Minister isn’t answering my question, that the answer to my question is yes, it’s a negative impact on school boards. Using numbers from the department itself, numbers that have been agreed to by school districts and also Education, Culture and Employment, Yellowknife Catholic Schools will see a reduction in their budget as follows: $277,000 in year one; $744,000 in year two; $1.137 million in year three. In year three, as the Minister stated yesterday, they will get funding for junior kindergarten of $960,000. The end result is a budget reduction of $177...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m very pleased to have a Grade 6 social studies class from William McDonald School in Frame Lake. I’m pleased to welcome them here. I will ask them to rise so they can be recognized when I read their names, and I’ll do my best not to mispronounce. Ivan Ceria, Logan Clarke, Joshua Donison, Safiya Hashi, Dylan Heaton-Vecsei, Cace Heffernan, Ethan Kirizopoulus, Mia MacInnis, Riley Menard, Rae Panayi, Justin Powder, Nathan Shereni, Anusha Sivakumar, and they’re accompanied by their teacher, Melanie Parisella, and their executive assistant, Carolyn Sauvageau. Welcome to...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that we report progress.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I just wonder if the chair of the committee or a member of the committee or the mover of the motion could give an example of what kind of expenditures are being talked about here. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We wish to consider Bill 26, Committee Report 8-17(5) and Committee Report 9-17(5). Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have an accounting of potential costs of junior kindergarten implementation for Yellowknife Catholic Schools which I wish to table. Thank you.

Thank you. I totally understand that things vary. We have small schools, we have large schools, and yes, we absolutely vary. The average across the territory is 13.8 to 1.

The Minister just said, if I heard him correctly, we’re moving back to 16 students to 1, 16 to 1. Is that what I heard? Am I correct in what the Minister said? If that’s the case, do we really want to go to the top of the list and be worst in the country for PTR? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to return to my line of questioning with the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment and see if I can, one last time, try and get some clarity as to two conflicting statements and a package of fact sheets, which the Minister tabled the other day.

I would like to know from the Minister when a Junior Kindergarten Program starts, say in September of 2014, will the school district that runs that program get the money in September 2014, or will it have to wait a full year to get it in September 2015 like they do now for most students? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You’ll notice we have a group of young people in the gallery today. I’m very pleased to welcome the Grade 6 social studies class from William McDonald School. Ecole William McDonald School, pardon me. I’m going to ask them to stand when I read their names so you can be recognized. Your name will go into our Hansard, which is a recording of our proceedings for the day, so you’re going to be forever marked in our register. My apologies if I get your name wrong, but I’m trying very hard to follow the rules in front of me. Chasity Atigikyoak, Kameron Burt, Dustin Caisse...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Not too long ago the Premier made a public proposal presented to the NWT Status of Women Council to establish a mock women’s parliament, similar to the Elders and Youth Parliaments that we currently have every second year.

The Premier’s intent was to provide an event that would create interest in and motivate women for territorial politics, and heaven knows we need more women to be elected to this Assembly.

The idea has generated a lot of opinion and discussion since. Many people, both men and women, have expressed their disappointment and, yes, disgust at the idea of...