Riverside South, a fast growing community in my riding, is going to be getting its first ever public high school. Thank you so much to everyone who worked on this, and the Minister and Premier for approving this.
00:00:00.000Mr. Speaker, I'm thrilled to announce that last night CTV News broke on CTV News at 6,
00:00:11.040their evening news, that Riverside South, which is a fast-growing community in my riding,
00:00:17.240is going to be getting its first-ever public high school.
00:00:21.640Thank you very much. There are a lot of people who helped out with this.
00:00:26.380I definitely want to thank the Minister of Education for taking my relentless and endless calls on this for the past two years.
00:00:34.700I want to thank Premier Ford because I actually remember speaking about the need for a public high school in Riverside South with the Premier last year in Ottawa during Christmas cheer.
00:00:45.140And the Premier said, Goldie, if you want it, you're going to get it.
00:00:47.760I also want to thank the community as well, and especially Lori Rogers and her three daughters, Jillian, Chelsea and Rachel, for helping me gather over 2,500 signatures for a petition that we submitted at Queen's Park last year.
00:01:03.720Mr. Speaker, this is excellent news for the community.
00:01:07.400One thing I just wanted to point out is that even though the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
00:01:11.960wanted a school that had space for 1,300 students,
00:01:15.760the Minister of Education actually approved funding for over 1,500 students,
00:01:22.300recognizing the growing need in Riverside South.