Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We recognize that we have an under-educated population, and the need for literacy and basic upgrading has been identified over and over again. We understand that. We do have some programs in place that are targeted to address this.
We have funding allocated to Aurora College and to non-government organizations to offer services. The issue of literacy is one that we are well aware of. It has to start with areas such as early childhood development. I spoke yesterday about the need to look at programs like the Aboriginal Head Start, which is having tremendous impact for children to be ready for school.
There is a thrust by two of our departments to come up with a policy on early childhood development. There is also starting to be awareness that we need to address this in education itself. We are looking at the potential of how to tackle the literacy levels in the schools, and then we get into the career development programs that are in place.
We have programs such as access programs for teacher education for nursing. If we are going to see the kind of resource development we have in the Territories, it is critical that we get the support from other areas in developing our human resource areas, and that does address the issue of basic literacy. The Non-Renewable Resource Strategy has to be tied in with both resources from the federal government and from participation by industry. I think industry is interested in working on this.
For example, Diavik has developed a module system to train people. They are looking for partners in that. We are discussing that with them. Thank you.