Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When I became a Member of this House, a couple of years ago, I realized we have been getting arenas and new nursing stations in Chesterfield Inlet, but the whole area of education and the need for capital planning for the purpose of education seems to be neglected.
With the $2.66 million, the Minister stated there will be a five classroom addition to Coral Harbour. I want to ensure we are not going to be creating under the Chesterfield situation, whereby Chesterfield right now is in acute need of extension and it was already full when it was completed a year and a half ago. I told the department, and especially the Minister from time to time, that we are holding our regular classes in industrial arts and the home economics area, and we are having our Inuktitut curricular programs in the porch where the coats and shoes are supposed to be. In fact, they are still there but we just ignore them and hold our classes there. Yet, because it is only two years old, there is no plan for an extension until 1998-99. Hopefully, that will be recognized with this Minister's new initiative or education strategy.
I just want to know, are we sure now with the grade 12 extension? A very fast rate of population growth in Coral Harbour was abnormally rapid because, not just the birth rate, but also the immigration to Coral Harbour because it is a nice and dry community. There are nice surroundings. Everyone is coming from Northern Quebec, Baffin and some other Keewatin communities. It makes it very hard to handle the housing situation and the school area. Can the Minister tell me that a five-classroom addition with this $2.66 million will satisfy Coral Harbour's population growth for at least five years?