Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. I am having a very hard time with the northern leaders system since I have looked everywhere since I have gone into this department because I was very, very intrigued by this program that the government has introduced. What beautiful courses or high standards, different from regular post-secondary, if the North American university is not good enough, are they being sent to Harvard or something like that? I cannot find out anywhere that they are making post-secondary education any different for students who are being funded under the regular Student Financial Assistance Program.

The only thing that I have found out so far, is that they live a little bit better than regular students who are not elitists. I do not know if we want to create that in the north on purpose. That is why, in terms of courses, the requirement for higher standard books, any of those things, the government has not been able to tell me.

I cannot convince or justify the Financial Management Board for continuing the leaders program, because I cannot see any differences in courses that they would be taking, other than the regular students that we send out under the financial assistance program. I think that what will have to happen, that is if we were wrong, and they were taking special courses that cannot be offered or the courses that they were taking were more expensive than the regular students in post-secondary education, then we will have to be told that or at least, it should be given to us so that financing for this kind of thing can be justified for the Financial Management Board and to the House.

What we are doing in this case is eliminating it, we are increasing the potential number of regular students because it is the same amount of money that the government allocates under the appropriation. If we eliminate that, we would then be able to increase the number of students that would be going to post-secondary school which is quite a bit cheaper.

In terms of C.T.E.P. programs, because we have an objective to increase 25 persons of the C.T.E.P. graduates to 50 percent of the total teaching personnel in the N.W.T. by the year 2000, then that is why we are reviewing this program so that we can get to that objective by the year 2000, successfully. That is the long term plan. We cannot really have solid long term objectives without reviewing it, looking at it, and seeing what a better success rate we can have to reach our goal. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.