Mr. Speaker, when I made the statement during the last session we had taken some care to point out that given the education levels of not only aboriginal people but northern people, that it is virtually impossible to make any substantive progress in filling many of the senior management jobs with the current available, trained, educated northern people of the Northwest Territories.

The focus has to be on making sure that the education system brings out more trained, educated people who we can hire so that they can get the experience to do some of the work. No one, especially aboriginal people, would be interested in being hired just as token aboriginal people. They want also to have the comfort of knowing they have a very good chance of succeeding in their jobs, that they have the experience and the management capabilities to carry out the work. The public, the aboriginal people themselves, who are being served will also demand the very same satisfaction. They want to know that the services and the level of competence in the people hired to serve them is maintained. Thank you.