(Translation) On page 13 in the centre, in the English translation it is not properly exact; the wording is not the exact same. For instance, it says that social services recipients, the people that are receiving social services, have to have a grade nine level of education, and since the report has been given to us, we now know that. As elders we used to know quite a bit about receiving social assistance. I have not heard in the Northwest Territories an announcement about the guidelines for social assistance to be received by individuals. One thing that we should be getting assistance for is because they have taken our dog-teams away that we used to use quite some time ago.
I think we will have to teach our younger people how to live off the land as well as living off their full-time employment. For this reason, perhaps I could ask the Government Leader, on page 13 there is a paragraph in there that states that if you have never asked for social assistance before the government came, but since the government is here now, we see social assistance and we are used to receiving social assistance now, and I just wondered whether only the people that have reached grade nine can receive social assistance. As I said before, I think you realize now that the reason why we do not know very much about the report is because we were not involved at the beginning.
In regard to the second paragraph, it says that about 80 per cent of NWT residents receive social assistance. The reason why I ask this question is that, because the GNWT is in fiscal restraint, it seems as though they want to do away with social assistance more than ever. I am not teaching my children to provide for themselves off the land. Perhaps you understand my question. If you are not clear on the question I am asking, perhaps I could clarify it further. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.