Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a few comments to make on the Minister's opening remarks. I see on page 2 he mentions some of the goals that support Towards A Better Tomorrow. He mentions that healthy schools that foster student achievements and success. I think, Mr. Chairman, in order to achieve these goals, we need all parties playing together and getting along and all working towards the same goal.

I am sure the Minister is well aware, as I am and many others, that sometimes all is not well out there, which makes these goals very hard to achieve. I know that in Hay River, there has been an ongoing issue with the DEA in Hay River wanting and working towards getting their own board. It is a very frustrating process. There are stumbling blocks and walls put up constantly by the department and by the South Slave Divisional Education Council. It gets to be very frustrating. For me, my involvement in it has been that it is extremely frustrating and makes it very hard to achieve the goals the Minister has outlined here in his opening remarks.

Hay River is also actively involved right now in trying to start up a French first language school. There has been a lot of work done in this area. It is, as well, to preserve language and culture. For six years now, a group has been working very hard to promote that program in Hay River and build it up to the point where there is a lot of interest in it now. There is a lot of buy-in from the federal government. It is going to need some buy-in and also some cooperation and help from the territorial government and all the players involved.

However, when I say that it makes it hard sometimes to achieve the goals such as healthy schools, this issue that Hay River has been working on with trying to get their own board is still there. It is very much in the forefront. I think the Minister will probably hear within the next day or so that there are some recent problems that have come up with budgeting and how it has been done and how it addresses Hay River.

The issues do not go away. In fact, they just keep building up and building up. I would like to ask the Minister if his department is going to continue to work with Hay River and the South Slave Divisional Education Council to try to find some kind of solution that everyone can live with on this issue. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.