Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, another area that I have a real problem with is when you start looking at statistics in the document that was just recently put out by your department, the post-secondary indicators report. When you start looking at the statistics between larger centres, Yellowknife, the regional centres and the small communities. In Yellowknife, the graduation rate is almost 30 percent. In the regional centres, it is at 20 percent. When you get down to the communities, you are a little less than ten percent. Just by that indicator, we can see from that that we are not getting the graduates that we should be getting out of the smaller communities. I feel it is critical that we get more students out.
You start looking at the statistics of students with less than a grade 9 education and in the smaller communities, it is almost 30 percent. In places like Yellowknife, it is not even three percent. I think because of those statistics, we can see that there is something definitely wrong with that picture.
So I would like to ask the Minister, exactly what are we doing to try to revamp or find out? We are not seeing a major shift, especially when students are graduating from high school.