Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will not be supporting the motion. As my friend, the Member for the High Arctic, stated, the life in North Baffin is very different from the life that exists in South Baffin, and especially a community like Yellowknife. It is totally different. Those students have an opportunity to attend high schools in their own community. Some of them cannot survive in a Yellowknife-type setting or even in an Iqaluit-type setting. So we are giving them a chance to at least have grade 12 in their own home communities, where the parental support is there, the grandparent support is there, and their friends are there.
As my friend from the High Arctic mentioned, there are kids attending high school in Pond Inlet coming from Resolute, Arctic Bay and Clyde River, because life in Iqaluit is too different from their own community. Pond Inlet is similar to Arctic Bay, Resolute and Clyde River. Mr. Chairman, for those kids who have an opportunity to attend high school in their home community, the chance would not be there if that service was not available in their own community.