Thank you, Madam Chair. Like people have been saying, it is important to listen. Telecommunications technology is not one of my strengths. People know that. I work well with computers, but I am not a computer programmer or anything. Luckily enough, my partner is. My partner actually worked at Northwestel for 30-some years and just retired, so he talks a lot about this stuff.

Basically, the idea of actually being able to put it and communities have an ownership of it, my belief is, based on my learning, that it is not feasible; it is too expensive. Northwestel currently is actually subsidizing the small communities. They are not making money at it. We have to be realistic with that. It is a private business. If we take that on, are we willing to look at the deficit?

However, what I am saying is that it is not okay to have nothing. What I have been promoting, again, I haven't thought about taking on the whole ownership and putting everything full force into the communities, because I don't know if that is feasible or cost-effective or if it will be one of our priorities, but what I can say is that we have Northern Distance Learning going into the communities into high schools. This year, I believe there will be 22 communities that will be linked with our Northern Distance Learning. The GNWT Department of Education, Culture and Employment pays for extra bandwidth. I don't know what bandwidth is, but I know that we are paying for extra bandwidth to actually get into those schools.

I have asked my partner, I have asked the department, and my understanding of what is feasible is, if we are using that extra bandwidth into the schools, why can't we extend that to our post-secondary using those 21 community learning centres? That's when I talk about strong community learning centres. If it is only a little bit more bandwidth, pay for it, if it's feasible because, again, it's not my strength, and start with that, so that the education is appropriate.

Education, I have heard from all of us, from Indigenous governments, around this table, that it is a priority, so let's start with our children, which we are doing in our high schools. Let's expand that so that people can get more options for post-secondary, and as for developing it for the whole community or taking it onto the community, I don't see it as a social enterprise; I see it as a social deficit. Those are discussions that I am open to feedback on, because I don't know the answers. Thank you, Madam Chair.