Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand where Brian is coming from with regard to schools. There are 200 students, so there are 200 reasons why we should build a school. The other thing is that we do not know whether or not, Mr. Chairman, the old school is doing the same thing as a new school would. If you build a new school and the result is that the enrolment goes up, morale is up and employment goes up, then let us all build a new school if that is the result of it, Mr. Chairman.
We have arguments with regard to parks. In order to measure any results, we have to employ a person in each park that we have in the Northwest Territories. We could come up with a questionnaire or something to measure whether our investment in parks is worth it.
Mr. Chairman, during the last years as a Member, one thing I have noticed is that even though the school at Fort Providence was built in 1959, you see new schools being built as early as 1974. I do not know whether or not the result is that we have a larger enrolment except that maybe some Ministers might have had capital projects allocated to their constituencies. You could, perhaps, measure this under the main estimates. But, for capital projects, you cannot measure this because you have had that establishment put into your community, and you keep an analysis for the next two or three years to determine whether or not the result of having this capital project in your community has boosted some kinds of statistics. It is difficult.
I cannot go for results until I have the capital project to justify whether or not it was worth it. I cannot see a committee of people determining what is best for my community based on the government's argument as opposed to not hearing mine.