Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank the Member for his comments on a variety of areas. I will quickly touch on some of them. I think one of the areas he dealt with when he dealt with the magnet community issue was some concern of funding levels to support any changes. We do have a mechanism and all of the DECs, as well as the DEAs in Yellowknife, are aware of the possibility of extraordinary funding and the application they can make in that area in the event that they need it.
The area that we are addressing is support for the classrooms through the PTR and the student needs. Mr. Bell also spoke about behaviour problems, and it is an interesting area, an area of great interest to me. We had several teachers in Vancouver a while ago to attend a session in British Columbia on behavioural problems and effective behavioural support. It is an area that some of the DECs and DEAs are already working on and have instituted some programs already.
On the Literacy Strategy, the collaboration between departments did take place, Mr. Chairman, and will continue to take place. A deputy minister's committee and his officials meet on a consistent basis to help develop the Literacy Strategy. We recognize that, because it was one of the areas that was part of the request by a motion that was made to ensure there is government-wide coordination.
The maximizing northern employment, we do intend to look at private sector support and to encourage and to look for opportunity to deal with the private sector, as well to ensure that employment is increased there.
The recruitment and retention issue, on students with interest relief, yes, that is something we are pursuing and we would like to pursue fairly rapidly now. We have been caught up with some other issues, but we have never put that on the back burner. It was just something that we needed to flush out a little more. We will be getting back to the Members on that.
The Aboriginal Languages Strategy, we did give that to the committee some time ago, Mr. Chairman, but we can certainly provide more copies if that is required, Mr. Chairman.
On oil and gas training, I would just like to state yes, Inuvik is humming and buzzing. The Minister of RWED was up on the weekend, but I was there two weeks ago, Mr. Chairman, and you were there yourself, at the time. The next morning I had some meetings with Inuvik officials, with Nellie Cournoyea and Freddie Carmichael, to discuss the whole issue of training, the whole issue of potential up there. Our department is very heavily involved in the whole training aspect there, Mr. Chairman. We have had a training committee operational there for many years already. The lead on that are our officials there. We are well aware and we are very involved in all of the activity there. Thank you.