I think that is marvelous and I am glad to hear that. Mr. Chairman, each year, according to the business plan that was presented to our committee, more than 500 people move to the Northwest Territories and take professional and highly skilled technical jobs because our labour force cannot fill them at this time.
We also discussed in committee the fact that we do not have very many northern grown college instructors because very few Northerners have masters degrees which are necessary to teach college courses.
Mr. Speaker, I would suggest that this is a very strong argument. Both of these areas provide strong arguments for the sort of transition measures to the new Student Financial Assistance program that the committee has been punching for. Because we need to see more people with higher levels of education.
If we are seeing 500 people come to the Northwest Territories with the unemployment rates that we have among Northerners now, it means we are missing a tremendous opportunity. We are going to continue to miss that opportunity until we start supporting our students for the time that it takes to get a graduate degree.
I hope that, given that this information is coming right from the departments business plans, that the Minister has had a chance to reconsider the transition issue and is prepared to commit that we will move to address this issue. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.