The point that is trying to be made by the standing committee on finance was, there is clearly not a coherent policy of long-time strategy that relates to high schools. There are differences of opinion within the Assembly between those who agree that high schools should be in communities or not in communities. Our concern was not to inhibit the construction of the Pond Inlet high school. Our concern is, is this the proper and correct action to take? Therefore, we felt at the time, and still feel, I suspect, that until we can see a well laid out high school policy, which we still
have not seen and which we asked for, our concern would be, should we continue to construct high schools in communities? That was the concern. What is the policy of the government? We have not seen a high school policy. There is concern within the committee, and a number of members on our committee from the Eastern Arctic, and I, for one, am one of them, are not convinced that building high schools in the communities is the answer to the educational needs of our children, and that is the reason behind this and the reason behind the motion.