Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is no doubt that the number of individuals that have been coming into the Territories to fill positions have been in the range of 500. I am not quite sure what particular positions those are.

With regard to the Member's concern with transition under the Student Financial Assistance, just to background this, we have to reflect back to how the program was established and the many changes have been made to the program.

We had extensive consultations on this. As a result of the consultations, the program was redesigned to fit the priorities. We had to make some choices about the various aspects of the programs, and we believe the choices that were made fit the priorities that were set, Mr. Chairman. Students that are going to school are going to have more money for tuition, books, and living allowances.

There will be pressures on the system because of the increased graduation rates that are potentially there from high school level moving into the system. So we will probably face a lot of pressure in the coming years for more funding to allow students to reach the graduation level, yet alone the post-graduate level. We will need money for the graduate level.

When we built the program, we took into consideration the client files and we looked at what the cost would be under the old structure. Then we did a new structure, and we did it a number of times with different permutations. We had to make sure the new program fit within the fiscal parameters that we have available to us.

As Members know, when we met in March, we also addressed the issue of the taxation of the Metis and Inuvialuit students. We added $500,000 to this particular program.

What is being asked is that we now increase the eligibility of students who already used up their entitlement in the past, and would we make those changes. As I mentioned yesterday, this program in the initial look that we have had at it and we continue to look at it, is expensive to do. It will be in the range of $1 million to $1.5 million, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.