Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I haven't spoken yet on general comments with the Minister of Education, but I feel that I have to make a few comments on his opening remarks. I know that the Minister has stated quite clearly that people are the NWT's most valuable resource and that the department realized early in its mandate, and so did this government, the need to invest in our young citizens. I take it that that is all geared to doing the very best we can for our young people and getting them the very best education that they can get and also I could imply by that, that the people we are talking about that are most valuable are also the people who look after the education of our young people, not only in the teaching end of it, but also in the different boards that we have. I think that that's great. Those are very good statements and one can't argue with those.

I am totally amazed, Mr. Chair, that when an issue that's trying to be addressed by the department and there is no will from the department to do anything about it, the number of excuses and the reasons that they can come up with for not doing anything. Yet, when something comes up in front of us here that nobody can make any sense of, at least from outside of the House, anyway, we have received a mountain of paper and a ton of excuses as to why we have to do it. It's certainly not a money issue here now that is preventing us from going ahead with any projects in Fort Smith that we want to do and for projects that hadn't appeared on the books as being urgent, to suddenly come before us with the number of reasons that we are getting that are still very questionable as to why we have to proceed with these issues.

The issue of the board in Hay River; the DEA in Hay River is not a new issue with the department. I am sure he will agree with me on that. I feel that I am not prepared to let that issue go away in promoting our young people and the education of our young people and what is best. What can we do to best educate our young people? I think we have mentioned many, many times that communities that know their people have the most say or should have the most say in what is best for their students. I look at issues like when we talk about young teachers, our teachers, graduating teachers, who are ready to go into the workforce and want to come back North and work. I know the department has done a lot of work towards bringing some of our teachers back. I am not saying that there can't be mistakes made in the department, Mr. Chair. That happens all the time, but when we hear about one that has been missed or when a mistake has been made and it's brought to the department, it's very frustrating to try to get anything done that really, really resembles what the department is preaching about with maximizing our northern employment and getting our students...I would like the Minister to comment on how his department approaches an issue where a northern student has gone through the training, is ready to join the workforce in the North and is being overlooked and is going through hoops and every roadblock in place to stop them from coming back. What is the department's action plan to deal with those particular cases? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.