Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe this is a step in the right direction, but I do not think it goes far enough.

I believe we have to deal with education in the context of all elements, not only with teaching, but ensuring we have the resources and the expertise in the classroom to deal with many of the social problems we see in our small communities. I am talking about FAE and FAS. Fetal alcohol syndrome affects many of our smaller communities.

One of the concerns I have is that I do not believe that this will deal with the problem of dealing with large communities versus small communities, and how a community the size of Tsiigehtchic, where you have 170 people, has three teachers, but you have also transferred the authority of improving our education by having kindergarten to grade 12 in many communities.

However, we do not have the human resources to ensure the quality of education in those communities, ensuring the students are treated fairly. It does not matter where they are. We have to ensure they have the programs in math, science, chemistry, whatever they need to ensure that when they graduate high school and move on to post-secondary education, they have the education and the marks to get them to the second step. This does not deal with that.

I feel strongly that in order for this Act to really encompass education, you have to look at it in the context of all the implications we face in our small communities. I feel there has to be a mechanism of measuring the programs or legislation we pass in this House to ensure it really meets the intent it was set for.

I have seen too many times where our high school students in our smaller communities have to prepare their own curriculum material in order for them to be taught because there is a lack of materials in our classrooms. They have to go out and develop their own curriculum. It is the same for the teachers. There is no more money in the system for them to be able to purchase simple things to deliver the quality of education we need in our classrooms.

This is a band-aid on a major cut. I think we have to seriously look at the other elements when we review this bill. I have asked the Minister to consider having the ability to open up this legislation to allow us to deal with the education problem at this time, without having to come back in another couple of months to deal with these other major problems. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.