Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to make a Member's statement on overcrowded conditions in the Victor Sammurtok school in Chesterfield Inlet. I have been asking the government to review the situation there. As I stated earlier this year and last year, there are classes being held in the industrial arts section and the home economics area. They are treated as regular teaching space because there is no other space available.

In fact, the last time I was there -- about a month ago -- there were students taking Inuktitut classes in the porch where the coats and boots are supposed to be. There were coats and boots in that porch as well. I will be tabling a petition today from Chesterfield Inlet, with community signatures, to correct these deplorable overcrowding conditions.

When Mr. Patterson was Minister of Education, he took a leadership role in making generic designs so that the schools could be expanded to suit the overcrowding conditions. This is a case where the grade extensions are occurring, students are coming back to school and students who usually drop out of school are staying. With all these conditions, overcrowding becomes inevitable. It is to the point where it has become unacceptable to the community.

I will be tabling the petition today and will be asking questions. Thank you.