Notley, Smith clash over school projects
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Summary
Learn English with the Premier of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Kathleen Pritchard. She was the first female premier of the province and served as premier between 2007 and 2011. She has been in office since 2011 and has been the premier for the past four years.
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To the Premier, does she think parents don't know the difference between real
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investments and recycled announcements and why won't she just do better?
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Well, we're doing a heck of a lot better than when they were in.
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Zero schools were announced in the 2015 budget, zero schools in the 2016 budget.
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The first part is you do planning, then you do the engineering work and then you do the construction.
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We have 98 projects that are in each of the three different stages.
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We're going to continue to keep up with growth.
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We'll probably have to announce a whole lot more as well.
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We've increased the amount of funding that we have for enrolment.
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The Member's Office must remember part of the funding change that we brought in was to protect schools as they were losing enrolment.
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Because when they were in power, we had 13 quarters of negative growth because people didn't have job opportunity
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and so they had to go elsewhere in order to be able to achieve it.
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We're going to continue to protect the low enrolment boards and also fund enrolment growth.
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But in manufacturing gives us an over-ged bli gegenwars.
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We're going to continue betting on that the foundation of the foundation