Mr. Speaker, I am sorry the honourable Member is not satisfied, but the fact is that we have been conducting meetings on an ongoing basis with the Nunavut Arctic College, which we just created within the last several months, who are going to assume the responsibility for the development of a Nunavut Arctic College plan.
The other point is that I have also been meeting with the Nunavut boards of education chairs and their directors on a regular basis. Part of the work that the department has also had to do is the matter of the transition plan for the department to get ready for division. Along with developing a human resources plan and getting involved with the income support changes, we've met with the NIC/NITC and with some of the boards, including the college board.
We did not, in fact, receive to date the real details of the NIC report because they are really not public. We have had discussions about what it entails but they have not been released to us for discussion. On those changes that we see as being of significant concern to us, we need to meet with the boards. I was asked to coordinate a meeting. We have indicated to the groups that we would like to host the meeting in November or in the fall once all the documentation has been completed.
It's not simply a matter of the department not doing the work. The fact is that the work is so substantive that we can't get it done immediately, and I am not prepared at this time to simply say that this department has not done any work. I think the honourable Member, if she looks at all the work that has been done to date, would note that much of the work has been completed, and the unfortunate thing is that we cannot get into some of the detailed discussions.
In fact, Mr. Speaker, I want to say that some of the chairs of the boards who will be meeting in Sanikiluaq several weeks from now have raised some very major concerns about board development in their particular regions, and it is not our recommendation to form a single board; it is the Nunavut Implementation Commission, and their minds have to be changed about that issue. The other component, Mr. Speaker, is that the strategic plan