Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to first indicate that I support the recommendation, as I indicated before, in asking the government to consider developing a northern hire policy.

I would like to make a couple of comments, though, that should be considered in dealing with the recommendation. One, this government should make a greater effort ensuring that we recruit people we educate, who we pay to be educated. In other words, whenever you are recruiting for teachers, that there are northern students who are going to southern institutions that are going to receive their degrees immediately after a recruitment effort, that you should make great efforts to try to recruit those students because they have an understanding of the north itself. They have an appreciation of some of the differences of cultures, and they have probably a greater appreciation for those differences of cultures.

I hope that in reviewing this particular recommendation, we will some how make efforts to ensure that we recruit students and professionals, who have had a great deal of their education paid by this government, and by the people of the Northwest Territories. I just wanted to make that particular comment. I do support the recommendation that is being made.