Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is wonderful to be back again. First, Mr. Speaker, before I get into my statement I would like to offer my sincere apologies for having been coerced and having participated on a voluntary basis in breaking the decorum of this House by dumping a load of paper, by the way it was all torn up from the budget address, on the Minister of Finance and Members across the way. As well, my apologies to the Speaker and Members of this House, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, we have had an opportunity over the last several weeks to concentrate on a number of issues. Many of our concentrations have been on the constitution and division of the territories. These are important issues, but we cannot forget about the day-to-day issues, and one of those is the students of the Northwest Territories and summer employment for those students. These students are now all back in the territories from university and college and the students from high school will shortly be looking for work.
I talked about the student issue the first session I attended a year and a half ago, Mr. Speaker, and I had urged that we develop an employment program by this government for students. I want to compliment the Minister of Finance to this end. He has created a private sector employment incentive program and I think compliments should go to the Minister for that program.
However, my concern, Mr. Speaker, is with the territorial government. We do not seem to have a coordinated and concerted effort to address the student employment issue with this government. I came across recently a publication from the federal government called Broaden Your Horizons. It is the federal government's student's guide for applying for employment. It is a very handy little publication that outlines where to apply, questions and answers, guidelines and it has a sample application form.
Now, we do not have a publication of this nature in the territorial government and I think it would be well worthwhile. We should have had this by now, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.