Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I take it then that the community would identify its priorities based on its growth and based on what it sees as its forecasted increase or decrease in the community. Now, you never see a decrease, but normally no one would ask to decrease. It is always an increase. Therefore, if a community foresees, for instance in division, that they are going to be the capital and they forecast a $6 or $7 million school and then they do not become the capital, that school is built without the need being there. I refer specifically to Rankin Inlet, because I got the impression that the school was built forecasting Rankin Inlet to be the capital. Now I find out that they are not the capital any more so now I see, Mr. Chairman, in the federal budget, that Iqaluit is getting a brand new school because they are the capital. Now that school was already built, in fact, in Rankin Inlet.

It seems to be that as people identify these needs, sometimes they do not happen. I bring this up in particular because I noticed in the overall capital, Mr. Chairman, that there seems to be some identified, where they do not need a school anymore. They identify a community library and it gets funded as well, but we are still not meeting the basic needs in the other communities. Before you get a library you should be able to read. It stands to reason that you would make sure that the rest of the communities have their basic needs before you go with the secondary requirements of libraries. I referred to a library this year, but I noticed it last year as well. Where my community of Tuktoyaktuk has been trying to address the shortage of space in that school in which a grade 10 school is used to service up to grade 12 students and there is just no space in there.

The other point I want to make here is that the community did point out to the Minister that there is a major impact on the younger students by the higher level, senior students. Peer pressure, discipline suffers because of mixing those two students together. Now, I notice that in a community like here and Inuvik you have Kindergarten to grade 9, then half way across town you have the high school, so that the students do not mix together and do not cause problems for each other. That is smart, but we do not seem to have that allowed in the communities. That is one of the points that I am trying to make here is that the need for capital does not seem to be really put to where it should be.

Now, Mr. Chairman, I would point out for instance, we have been hearing now for two years where Yellowknife has been losing a whole pile of people. I cannot remember the exact figure that is going to be reduced in this particular community by division. They will be either going south or going east, but there will be reduction in this particular community of Yellowknife. In addition, I have been hearing for the last eight or nine months that the mines are shutting down. I look under capital and I see $6 million for two schools for Yellowknife, but the population is dropping. Where is the justification for this? I have a community with a stable population, slowly increasing, but we cannot get a $2 million extension. That is my point, Mr. Chairman.