CALGARY- The premier is vehemently denying claims that students in her riding who were displaced by the flood are getting preferential treatment.
The Elbow Park school was badly damaged in the June flood, and students are still waiting for modular buildings to go up in the community of Mount Royal.
600 children in High River are also waiting for new buildings, and the High River school district wants them done first, saying its students are disadvantaged.
“It’s a little bit frustrating, we’re feeling like maybe we’re being forgotten,” says parent Karen Dees.
Critics say the Elbow Park children are getting preferential treatment because they are in Alison Redford’s riding—which she flat out denies.
“The modulars that are in the constituency that I represent also do not have children in them yet,” Redford said on Wednesday. “In the circumstances, in the communities, the school boards are doing the best that they can. Once those modulars are constructed and they are campuses, kids are going to be able to move into them and that’s what we all want.”
Enzo Development received the contract for more than 50 modulars, but says it could not meet the September deadline because they had difficulty accessing building materials.
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