Is the Minister saying there are two different types of education or is it an education for large centres and an education for small centres, where basically the larger centres get everything and the kitchen sink and the people in the small communities, sorry you are too small, you cannot grasp it? You just do not have what it takes, but because we are a larger centre, we will deliver education fairly to everybody else. When it comes to a smaller community, you are basically using a two- criterion system when we take all the schools. We tell the communities take on higher education. Get high schools in your community, so we do not have to send you to the larger centres, but then when it comes to delivering programs such as the small mechanical programs in the school, it is only offered in larger centres.

In the case of Fort McPherson, we have almost 900 people. You are telling us we cannot deliver this program, but people that live in Inuvik, Fort Smith or Yellowknife can deliver it. There are two criteria systems for education here. There is education for the large, rich, remote centres and the outlying communities who are supposedly offering the same level of education to everybody in the Northwest Territories. There is a different process when it comes to the smaller communities when it comes to the context of the department.