Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I believe the standards are the same, yes. I believe the curriculum is one we can compare to other jurisdictions. I think there has been some concern among some of our residents in the north, with the extension of grade 12 into the smallest of communities, that it has been increasingly difficult for teachers to adequately deal with the groupings they have in their classrooms. The goal is to have the instruction be the same in all communities, yes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would have to take the question as notice. I am not able to provide any useful information to the Member at this time, so I will get back to the Member when I have put the information together in order to properly answer the question. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is addressed to the Minister of RWED. It is in regard to the agreement that was signed last year among Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, I believe, in regard to an agreement to oversee the waters coming into the north. This Mackenzie River Basin Agreement was signed and I would like the Minister to update us, if he could, on the status of the formation of the board, the appointment of members and the activities that are going to be undertaken, hopefully by this new secretariat. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Mackenzie River Basin Trans-boundary Agreement set out some principles for the establishment of a co-management board, which consists of Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories for a total of about 13 members on the board. A secretariat has also been set up in the interim to help support this board.

At this time, there is an interim secretariat located in the Environment Canada offices in Edmonton. It is our intention that once a quorum of board members have been appointed to this board, their first meeting hopefully which will happen sometime in November, they will begin to discuss probably administrative housekeeping issues such as the issue of where to locate the office of the secretariat.

I believe we should be able to see this board and conduct its first meeting in November. It has been the view of the governments and agencies involved that the issue of where to locate the offices of this board and secretariat should be left to the board, once it is established, to decide. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the Minister for that information. Very clearly, Fort Smith is interested in the location of the board, but of even greater importance of course is the work to be done by this secretariat. The board is yet to be appointed. Could the Minister indicate the status of appointments of board members? I understand getting the five jurisdictions to, in fact, select their board appointees has been one of the hold ups. Are we going to be ready in that regard as well? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I believe to date seven members have been appointed. There are some outstanding. However, there is a quorum of seven that have been appointed to date. It is possible for this board to plan for a meeting, which as I said, they have tentatively set for the month of November. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister referenced earlier on some key principles had been agreed to. Could the Minister just highlight the one or two key principles that are going to be directing this board and the secretariat in terms of what they hope to achieve in dealing with all these particular environmental issues related to the rivers and waters flowing into the north? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, thank you, but I will not be able to reiterate the principles that were attached or set out by this report, but I will be willing to share that with the Members through perhaps another forum.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the new school being built in Pond Inlet will have a gym of 396 square metres, which is the standard size we use for schools that are built for a capacity of less than 396 students. In the community last year there were 213 students registered. We are expecting it will be some time before the school would be required to handle a student capacity beyond 396. Mr. Speaker, we have had, in the past, requests from a number of communities asking that the size of the gym be increased for one reason or another. In some communities we have been able to accommodate that when the community itself has found a way to pay for that.