Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One decision that was made prior to me becoming Minister, and I think it is important, because some of the results are beginning to show, first with the Dene Kede curriculum and I think with the Inuqatigiit curriculum which deals with the Inuit culture and language. There has been a real need for us to develop and deliver a basic curriculum. That's not to suggest that each region shouldn't implement their own ideas within that curriculum, but there has to be basic curriculum available.
I think that will alleviate some of the individual expenditures that have been made separately by divisional boards because with the development of the aboriginal curriculum, we have found that the divisional boards are working together to develop a core curriculum. That's very, very helpful. Another important issue in the Nunavut area, which I think should have excited a lot of people, particularly the Nunavut Members of this Assembly, is that for the first time all the divisional boards got together. The chairs of those divisional boards got together to begin talking about the direction of education in Nunavut for the younger children.
They also take a great deal of interest in post-secondary programming because they don't feel post-secondary training can be offered in isolation of high school programming or elementary school. You need children to go through the school system in order to graduate and meet the standards set by Arctic College in Nunavut. I think that is very, very important. I'm very excited about the way things are beginning to work in Nunavut. I think we all should be because the leadership of education has come together now and I think you're going to see some exciting things being developed.