Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am happy to see the report that I had discussions about earlier in my political career. I am proud that there are some positive directions that will take place. At least, directions for us to work on. It is important for NWT residents, whether you are a parent, student or citizen, to achieve the strategy to the year 2010.
I cannot forget when I went to school, because there were no high schools -- in fact, I think the federal government had a policy not to put aboriginal people beyond grade nine or maybe it was too expensive -- I had to go to school elsewhere like everyone else. When I went to high school, I found it so easy that I declared that by 1970, all Inuit or aboriginal people will have university degrees. You can virtually do grades nine to 11 in nine months. However, the atmosphere changed. The parents were changed by society or perhaps governmental policies. In other words, how to behave towards your children or how to leave them alone and have the teacher become a babysitter. It will be very important that we get the parents back into the process, not just leave it up to the teachers. I welcome this document. I know there are still a lot of things missing, but I am willing to work with this document so that the inevitable situation does not take place. That is depression, recession and lack of development in terms of the economy or human resources. With that, I am very happy that Towards a Strategy to 2010: A Discussion Paper, has been tabled. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.