Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member knows it is only within the last few years that the communities have been getting involved in the educational system; I mean the aboriginal people in the communities as well as other people who are living in the communities. They can get involved through education authorities, through divisional boards of education in the regions. That has been happening only within the last two years. What we have here in the NWT is a system borrowed from the southern system that southern Canada uses.

I hope to see that sort of development taking place while we include the community members who know their principles in terms of life and what sort of things we should get our kids ready for after completing grade 12. So far the communities that I know of in the whole NWT have not been developing curriculums; they have not got that far.

Also, I would like to give the Member assurance that we will try to pursue in that light, once we take control of the educational system at the community and regional level. At this moment the department has no measure of how ready these students are after they graduate from the school system. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.