Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Yesterday I had an opportunity to say a few words about the potential difficulty of attracting teachers to the Northwest Territories in the future, not because of where we are at, but because of competition that we potentially face by other jurisdictions, not just in Canada but internationally it appears. I am wondering if because of what I said yesterday, I know the Minister, I believe, talked about the turnover possibly being down according to their figures. Are the figures they have given me their indicators to date or is that the indicator for next year, for this coming fall? It is of concern because we have to solidify our teachers' retention rate here in the territories.

As I said, it is an international problem and several teachers that I know have in one case, one has been attracted to New Zealand and this was mid-term. In another case it is a couple and they are planning to go back to the far east. They have taught there before. There are some reasons why they are interested. They are making less money there, but just as a side note here I would like to make a comment on it because I think this is important as well. They are going there because they feel the discipline in the schools is much better there than it is in our circumstance. It is not money reasons why they are going there. It is strictly because they get more respect from the students. More respect from the parents.

Now, I am not saying that all students and all parents are disrespectful to teachers, but in their particular case it is an element of concern. A while ago I heard a comment on the radio from a person in Saskatchewan or Manitoba, I believe, a teacher commenting as well about the problem of discipline within classes and that it is leading to a problem for teachers. I guess I am addressing two questions here in one. First if I can get back to my latter comments. If I can ask the question of, are the statistics the Minister used yesterday, do they refer to the upcoming year starting this fall, is that the projection? Thank you.