Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I put that to rest. I was using that as an example. There must be other ones like that. I understand the Minister is leaving that all up to the HTA in the local communities, but there is an inconsistency. We take a leadership role in promoting education, and Mr. Nerysoo knows that very well. We also promote the home ownership program, and Donnie Morin knows all about that. What I find inconsistent in the government as a whole is that we encourage a student to go to university or college. There are not too many jobs in Coral Harbour so we give them training. They spend four years in an apprenticeship program and they go to work for Rankin Inlet, for example, where all the capital plans are, as we found out last year. They work for six months there. Six months plus one day and they come back after the construction season and they are denied allocations for polar bear tags, whales and things like that.
It is fine and dandy to give all kinds of authority to HTA, but I think the government should also take a leadership role in encouraging HTA to give consideration -- as part of the government's leadership role -- to encouraging education and finding jobs elsewhere if there is nothing in the local community. We should be able to welcome students back with the full privileges they previously held. I think we should take that role.
I'm not down-playing HTA, but most of the HTA membership so far have been hunters. They are not economists. They are not educators. They are not normally political leaders of the community. What they do fits them well as far as conservation is concerned, as far as subsistence hunting is concerned, fair distribution, et cetera, but they can't see a global picture about how other populations of the community should be treated in terms of benefits that they, themselves, enjoy.