Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, it is a national program which is designed to provide a Canadian wide information base to assist Departments of Education across Canada to assess the performance of their education systems relative to others. It is not intended to be a measure of individual students success or failure. Given the tests are not normed for northern populations, it would be improper to put too much weight on the results. What they do is give us an idea of how our students are performing in relation to others in Canada. From that we can determine whether or not we need to expend some energy to strengthen our curriculum in certain areas. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.