MLA Morgan has key for the NWT economy – NNSL Media

Our leaders must change their mindset. What they are doing is not working.

“What we can control is establishing the foundation of a territorial workforce that is well-educated, with the capacity and skills not only to be workers, but also contractors — Northerners operating businesses with a range of abilities, ready to respond to diverse economic opportunities.”

That was Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan, speaking to the media about the looming layoffs at Ekati. She’s right, and the rest of cabinet and the legislative assembly should listen.

People in our communities want to work. They will support responsible resource development — if it actually gives them a shot at a job. But most can’t even qualify. Why? Because our education system has failed them for decades. It wasn’t designed for the North, it was imported, imposed and operated by people trained in a completely different reality. And to this day, it serves the system, not the students. High absenteeism and low graduation rates persist, generation after generation.

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