Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I can tell the Member that the department does keep track of the statistics across Canada in terms of supply and demand for teachers because it helps us to be aware of whether or not there might be a problem coming up. It would probably be of interest to the Member to know that this year, for instance, in the western Northwest Territories, the student growth in all of our schools was only .9 percent and future projections are that we will not see any growth at all in the total school population for some time in the western NWT.
In Nunavut they are projecting considerable growth in the school system. Given that, what we are looking at is compensating for natural teacher turnover, which for the past ten or so years has averaged about 20 percent a year. We can certainly provide the Member with what that means in the territories in terms of new teachers and an estimate of the number of teachers that will be trained through the Teacher Education Programs. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.