Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member has spoken to me earlier on this issue to raise this concern. The Member makes a good point. The college and university entrance programs we have available to us now are more in the range of upgrading programs in order to ensure students are brought to the proper academic level to be ready for university and college. Perhaps we need to improve the courses to ensure students are aware that it is more than just academics that they have to prepare for at university.

At this point, we do not have any concrete plans within the department to add to programs, but it is certainly something that fits in with the recommendations of the Ministerial Forum on Student Financial Assistance, which recommended that we needed to support students better.

The department is prepared to take a look at what we might be able to do to offer programs in the north that would improve the chances of student success. While I cannot make a commitment that we can offer them in the immediate future because we do not have identified funding to do that, I think that there is a good point that has been made and we will have to look for ways to achieve it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.