Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Nitah is certainly very concerned about aboriginal languages and I respect that. I think that we are all very concerned about the preservation of languages here in the Northwest Territories.

As I mentioned earlier, there is a tremendous deterioration of languages. I think we are working on this as we go, so to speak. The funding for this particular program is done through the Canada Northwest Territories Cooperation Agreement. As I mentioned earlier, it is a five-year program with some $17.5 million, but it is partially set by criteria of the federal government based on a national formula for French.

We negotiated as much as we can for the territorial government and the agreement was signed on January 6, 2000, as I mentioned earlier.

As well, I should mention that we do have $1.8 million for school programs. That is in addition to the $1.9 million that we, as a territorial government, dedicated to the preservation, encouragement and resurrection of languages. Thank you.