Thank you, Madam Chairperson. I spoke earlier about the issue of grade extensions in the communities and I want to preface my remarks again that I am not against grade extensions in communities but I am interested in knowing what the costs are. Mr. Miltenberger referenced the fact that it is cheaper or it makes no difference, if I recall, to do community education by grade extensions in the communities. I would like to make reference to the Hansard from back in July 2, 199,1 when Mr. Kakfwi was the Minister of Education and this was a subject discussed extensively at that time. The Minister came back with actual costs of grade extension in reply to a return to a question and it was pointed out that in this reference to Cambridge Bay where there were nine students and the total cost to run the program would be $164,000. It would be $50,000 cheaper to do that in Yellowknife. As I say, I am not advocating that we return to that kind of system, but what I would like to know, and Mr. Miltenberger gave me statistics that contradict this. I think these are the kind of issues that we need to tackle as a department. I think you can get real with your statistics. It is okay to say, well you know, this, this and this. I have heard a number of times today where statistics were used and we can sit here on this side and argue the total opposite. That is reality. I say, with grade extensions, it does cost money. As I say, that is fine. If we are all in agreement on that and that is what we want to do, but we do have one community that has been raising some concern about this and has stated they want to look at alternatives to doing higher education or grade extensions other than in their community. If we do not know the costs of this, then, that is where part of our problem is. That is number one.

The second is, today I tabled a letter from a gentleman from Inuvik who wrote to the Minister and commented about the fact that his wife could not get a permanent position. I do not know whether this information is correct or not in this particular letter, but it raises the question, since the person cannot get a permanent job, they are moved in and out of the community from the south to the North in order to fill term positions at some cost of $18,000 to do this. There are apparently two or three other teachers who are in the same position looking at that. That is an extreme expense to fill those particular term positions. Like I say, I cannot verify this, but, if it has some truth to it, then we are spending an awful lot of money to do this type of employment. Those are the kind of issues I think that are here that we have to put before the Minister to say start looking at your department, start looking at some of these programs. It is fine to say, well we cannot find more money, fine, we cannot find more money, but we also need to say then, what are we doing and are we doing it to top efficiency. That is very important. Let me perhaps, we have been rejoined by some of our other colleagues again, to allow them some comments and some questions too.

The other question I have is a general question on the People Our Focus For the Future. This is the Ministers' Forum on Education. Could the Minister tell us here, because we do have an audience that is disappearing rapidly, but, we do have a number of people here who would be quite interested in knowing what are we doing with respect to the forum report? The Minister commented previously that 32 are non-monetary, that leaves 12 that are monetary. Could the Minister perhaps address that issue for us here? Thank you.