Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, many years ago I was in the hospital in Fort Rae. There was no road to Fort Rae at the time. I was four years old and when I returned home I was speaking the Dogrib language as my first language. My mom said I was not her son because I was speaking Dogrib. This bothered me quite a bit. It took me about two or three years before I learned my language. When I first went to residential school I was fluent in the South Slavey dialect. Through the years I have been able to hang on to my language. However, Mr. Speaker, just last month one of my older sons who is 14 years of age visited my mother, his grandmother. She asked him in her language to put some meat downstairs in the freezer. My son took the meat and dumped it outside in the burning barrel. I really question the delivery of aboriginal programs in the school. It was not until we visited my mom that she told us this and my son was able to go out and get that meat back out of the barrel.

I would like to ask the Minister of Education whether or not the present system of education allows for any kind of evaluation on aboriginal programs. In other words, do we have people who evaluate whether the students are actually learning their aboriginal culture?