Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The two boards that exist in Yellowknife are a little different than that of other boards since Yellowknife is tax-based and they have their own autonomy. The school board in Yellowknife has to raise 25 per cent of their funding to operate the schools, and they have a latitude which is up to them to provide services. Generally there are programs in schools in Yellowknife that are not available in the communities which the school board has to fund within their own ability.

When it comes time to deal with divisional boards of education throughout the NWT, we will sit down with them and see how we could work things out to see that services that they have been providing, using the interest dollars, could be continued. Thank you.