Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The reason I asked the question is because I believe there are a lot of teachers who are now stuck in that dilemma. Sure it is a great program, but the problem we are running into, especially from what I have seen in the last year, is that a lot of teachers are having to either take a year leave from their jobs to go to school and find funding sources elsewhere. They may be accessing it through the Inuvialuit or the Gwich'in so that they can continue their education.

Right now, the program you have is insufficient. I believe they are limited to one teacher per school, per community. I think for us to meet the requirement that is needed for all the teachers to obtain their degree within that five-year time frame is unrealistic. We cannot do it with the resources we have. If anything, we have to put more resources in it and keep the teachers who are home-grown in their home communities. Also, they have to be able to succeed in their education by getting their degree. It is a problem.

I know for a fact that teachers have accessed funds and they took a year off of teaching so they could try to meet that requirement, but they had to go elsewhere to get the funds to do it.

We should not find ourselves in that situation where we are not only putting a burden on our schools because the teacher has left, or else on the teacher where they have to go elsewhere to find the required dollars to do it.

I think if anything, we should try to pinpoint this down, with the NWTTA to find out how many teachers require these funds. For us to do it at a rate of 20 a year, I do not think we are going to meet that goal that we have imposed on teachers. I think it is important that we nail that down.

I would like to ask the Minister if he has any idea where those 20 students are going to come from, considering we have 33 communities?