Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is a process that is used and it is part of the way to identify the needs in the communities. I can appreciate the Member's concern because sometimes the school is the only building in the community that is available for utilization for educational type programs. One type of program that is available, for example, is Aboriginal Head Start. That's a federal program that is funded federally. Sometimes these are combined with the school. We don't have any objection to that, Mr. Chair, but then it becomes a problem possibly down the road of saying we need to add onto the facility, but the federal government hasn't contributed capital-wise to the Aboriginal Head Start program. It's our view that they should participate in that. We are caught in a problem from time to time.
I don't disagree that we should look at utilization of our educational facilities for a variety of programs like adult education, like Aboriginal Head Start, like early childhood development. The primary purpose of the school is a K to 12 program and that is what it's funded for and that is what is designed. It was very much appreciated that the community itself contributed in the case of the Hay River Reserve, but sometimes we can't identify enough capital to do this. Is that desirable? No. We would prefer that we would be able to finance a lot of these projects ourselves. But then we get into the whole question of other programs being run in the schools other than the K to 12 programs. We are not against that, that's just what starts to happen and there is pressure upon us to ensure that additional facilities are built. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.