Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Education and I will warn you, I have a bit of a preamble leading up to this question. I will try to make it brief.
Madam Speaker, on October 19, 1994 during consideration of the main estimates of the Department of Education, in light of a recent call for proposals to study future directions of existing student residences in Iqaluit, Inuvik and Rankin Inlet, including terms of reference calling for a phase-out plan for residences, I asked the Minister if it was the department's intention to get out of the business of accommodating high school students in those three regional residences. I was told in reply, page 944 of Hansard, October 19th, that "we want to identify, first of all, if there is a requirement for us to get out of regional residences."
My question to the Minister, Madam Speaker, is, if the Minister has commissioned a study to determine, in his words in this House, "if there is a requirement to get out of regional residences," then why does the department's strategy laid out in Tabled Document 41-12(6), page 52, say, "we will move to close Grollier Hall, Kivalliq and Ukiivik?" Thank you.