(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, hopefully I will be clear enough. I would like to pose my question to the Minister for Division. The deputy ministers in that region, and probably the Minister I am sure, have meetings occasionally concerning languages within our communities. The language policies were approved in Igloolik originally, but later on in the future there were amendments made to those policies. Whether it was by way of the Interim Commissioner I do not know, but the Baffin leaders held a summit in July and a motion was brought forward to return to the original documents under the Languages Policy. At that time it was moved, I believe by people representing Kugluktuk/Coppermine. I wonder if he can elaborate on that? Thank you. (Translation ends)

The Minister for the Division Secretariat, Mr. Todd.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I was just conferring with my colleague so that I might answer the question properly for Mr. Evaloarjuk. Any changes to the Footprints in the Snow II model, I think which is what Mr. Evaloarjuk was speaking about, is subject to the approval of three parties, NTI, GNWT and the federal government. We understand that the Interim Commissioner's office, because of a variety of circumstances, is going to put forward some recommendations for some change. At this time we have not seen that and we are hopeful that would be presented to Mr. Arlooktoo and the others at their meeting next week in Ottawa. If, in fact, there are some changes that have been recommended by the Interim Commissioner that we can support, then we would provide to my honourable colleague and to this House an update on that information at that time. At this time, we do not have a definitive response from the Interim Commissioner as to what changes, if any, he wishes to make. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you. The Minister for Public Works and Services, Mr. Antoine.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I just became aware of this situation very recently, so I have to depend on what the department provides for me with regard to information. What I have been told is that originally there were two tenders that came in for this project. Again, I have to say that this project itself came in after the budget. RWED was able to arrange funds to replace the warehouse, so it did not go through the normal process. On this particular contract, there were two tenders. One was rejected and the other one, the company mentioned, was high. Their costs were over the estimate of the project, so there were a series of attempts to negotiate, but their price was still high and I am told that the Department of Renewable Resources was unable to provide additional funds for this project. Therefore, this joint venture could not reduce their price further, so this whole project was re-tendered on a reduced scale and another firm got the contract through a public tendering process. That is the nature of the public tendering process. Once you get into the public tendering process, there is not much we can do about it. I became aware of this after it was in the public tendering process, so there was not much we could do about it at this point in time. Thank you.

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Question, please.

Thank you. Mr. Antoine.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I do not know that question, therefore, I will take his question as noticed. I will get back to the honourable Member with complete details of what happened here. Thank you.

Thank you. The question is being taken as notice. Oral questions. Mr. Henry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent. I am referring to his statement in the House yesterday regarding students' success. In particular, I would like to talk about the grade extension policy. I note that the Minister has advised the House that the number of communities that have the ability to provide secondary education is at 90 percent. The Minister stated that students no longer have to leave the support of their families and communities to pursue secondary education.

Mr. Speaker, a number of students, who I am aware go for post-secondary education from a community such as Yellowknife, have a difficult time when they go to larger centres. They have a difficult time adapting to the numbers of people, the traffic and so forth. I am wondering if the Minister if having this policy of having as many high schools as possible in communities is not creating a bottleneck for students who will achieve high school education? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. The Minister for Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent.

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Henry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Minister has told us about the increase in the number of graduates. Can the Minister give some hope to the number of graduates that he is graduating through the schools in the smaller communities? What do they hope to do in the smaller communities where there is little chance for creating meaningful employment? They will still, as I say, have to leave in many cases, as other Canadians have to do, to find gainful employment. What programs is the Minister promoting within the schools to create employment for the graduates in the smaller communities? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Mr. Dent.

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Henry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Minister referred to 3,000 jobs being created in the territories and most of these people have moved to the territories. I still go back to the question of the possibility of getting the students from a high school education qualified where post-secondary education is required to be able to take those 3,000 jobs. I still go back to the question of the bottleneck being created there. I compliment the Minister and the department for raising the number of graduates, but unless there is some path available to those students after that to be able to take advantage of post-secondary education, I still think the bottleneck is there. Again, what encouragement is created in the communities to encourage these students to go on to post-secondary education and maybe to make it easier for them to

do that? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. The honourable Minister, Mr. Dent.