Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Member has brought up an area of difficulty. He's right; if, indeed, adult literacy is a problem and if it is a priority of this government, it is a concern that there are a number of communities that don't have base-funded programs for adult educators. Unfortunately, given the fiscal restraint we are under, we have a really major problem in trying to expand. There are 58 communities in the Northwest Territories and we, for the past number of years, have only had adult educators in 35 of those communities. We do not have, within our budget, the resources to expand the number of base-funded locations. Given the fact that the colleges are getting a reduced amount of funding in this budget compared to last year, it's difficult to see how we can expand the locations of base-funded programs.
The college has been extremely aggressive, though, at finding third-party funding to deliver programs in communities where base-funded opportunities are not available. In the Dogrib communities, that has been the case. We will do our best; I have told the Member for North Slave that the college will continue to work very hard to locate third-party funding in order to ensure that we can provide as many programs as possible in those communities, in the absence of having base-funded programs there. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.