Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to say that over the past two weeks back home in Iqaluit, I held several meetings with constituents, union members and senior employees of the government. Mr. Speaker, many of my constituents are concerned about the fiscal situation of the government and await word of reductions and job losses.

Mr. Speaker, while I was in Iqaluit, the Minister of Education released a communique about the transfer of Nunavut College programs from Iqaluit. Mr. Speaker, I will table, later in this House, a petition signed by over 130 students, instructors and people in Iqaluit who are attending the college there. Many of these people, Mr. Speaker, are also from outside of the community of Iqaluit.

Mr. Speaker, these students are asking the Minister and the government to reconsider this relocation, and I will be asking questions of the Minister on this topic later today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

---Applause