Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, since 1969, there has been 363 graduates of the Teacher Education Program in the Northwest Territories who have received a teaching diploma. Ninety-three of those graduates have gone on to receive a bachelor's degree. There are two who have completed a Masters of Education degree. The program has demonstrated a significant amount of success. The Member has asked how close we are to achieving the 50
percent goal that was announced for the year 2000. There are a number of boards which are coming relatively close to that goal in terms of the number of teachers right now. Those boards in the Nunavut region tend to be much closer. The boards in the western region are not as close. In fact, we expect with reprofiling the Teacher Education Program and reinvesting in it over the course of the next few years, we are going to set a new goal of 2003 to achieve the original target that was set for the year 2000. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.