NORTEP-NORPAC students lobby Ottawa to save their program
Come July 2017, the 40-year-old NORTEP-NORPAC program in La Ronge will be no more.
Members of the NORTEP-NORPAC students’ association made a trip to Ottawa in an attempt to save their program.
The Northern Teacher Education Program (NORTEP) provides teachers to the northern regions of the province, where many of the students who attend the program are from. The Northern Professional Access College (NORPAC) was founded in 1989 to bring these same people arts and science programs.
Rielle Desjarlais, the student association’s vice president, visited Ottawa for the first time at the invite of NDP MP Georgina Jolibois. She was there to try and lobby for federal funding to save NORTEP-NORPAC.