Thank you, honourable colleagues. The leadership students fully participate in the life of the P W K High School and are members of different sporting clubs in the community, and represent the school in team and individual events.
This program has been, as I stated earlier, a very successful program. However, Mr. Speaker, they have had some difficulty in the past, particularly with regard to the amount of funding they are granted. In the past, we were pleased to give them the support of $50 through the Department of Social Services as a youth initiative program to assist them. Looking at future leadership for the Northwest Territories, I thought that was a good way to use funding.
Mr. Speaker, the western Arctic leadership program is finding somewhat of a difficulty with their current level of funding. It is a program which I give my full support to as an MLA and I give full support to the concept of the western Arctic leadership program. I certainly hope that the same type of concept would be looked at for the east. Mr. Speaker, I would encourage the Minister of Education to assist the South Slave divisional board in continuing such a successful program for northern youth. Thank you.