I believe the Minister touched on the question of the quality of education, not just education in the sense of the word, but the quality of education that we are providing for our students in the Northwest Territories. I think it is awfully disheartening when you see a student going through K - 12 and when they get to grade 12 they do not have the marks to get themselves into post-secondary education or off to college because they just do not have the marks in regards to the maths or science or the social envelope. We talk about the cost, but what is heartbreaking for me is that I come from a small riding and you see two or three students graduating a year and in the meantime we may have started off with a class size in grade 2 or 3 where you have 29 students and it kind of makes you wonder, where did the other 28 or 25 students go?

What is wrong with the system that we are not producing quality graduates at the end of the day and why is there such a high dropout rate in the Northwest Territories? When I come back to the original question I asked, the social and economic cost to this government, if we do nothing now to put the resources and the dollars into education and improving it, it is not just a question of educating people but it is a question of having the quality of education in our classrooms so that when someone is in the high schools in Fort McPherson, or Aklavik, or Tsiigehtchic, or wherever you want to have them, making sure that they have adequate resources to conduct their classes in regard to having the materials available in those classrooms. Right now there are students who are educating themselves by pulling curriculum together, by going out of their way to find the information in regard to the text or the subject matter they want to deal with, and having to go out of the classroom to try to get the information to get educated in our classrooms. Is that quality of education?

I think the Minister has to realize that you talk about numbers and you talk about the whole question about well we spend all this money here, but at the end of the day have we actually looked at having the resources available in all our classrooms so that we are teaching a curriculum, subject matter right across the board in the Northwest Territories, does not matter what school you are in. That is what I talk about as quality of education, not that one school has a subject they can teach and another school does not. I would look to ask the Minister, has the department considered ensuring that there will be a fundamental principle that it does not matter where you live or where you are being taught, but the subject matter in regard to the program or the subject you want to take in that particular classroom is available anywhere in the Western Territory, than having some students without materials to meet the marks they need to graduate and be successful and know that once they graduate they can continue on to post-secondary education, or university, so that they can improve in the economic society of the west. Thank you.