Thank you, Madam Chair. I, like the Member, am interested in ensuring that we have adequate programming space for all our students in the Northwest Territories, and one of the first things I did after becoming Minister was to take a look at what we had in terms of leases and where we might have opportunities opening up. So I asked the department when the lease would be expiring on Northern United Place and finding out that it was coming up in a few years, directed that they work with the college and Public Works and Services to do an examination of what we should be looking at, whether it makes sense to stay in the same place, whether it makes sense to stay in the same place and do renovations, or whether it makes more sense to look at occupying new space. At the moment there is some work underway. Again, it's a three-way process between the college, Education, Culture and Employment and Public Works and Services to examine the programming that will be provided. Following that final sort of decision, that's being led by the college at the moment, then we'll take a look at space requirements and that part would be led mostly by Public Works and Services. Hopefully we'll then, fairly shortly, have an idea of what the options are for the space.
As the Member has pointed out, there is a significant amount of rent that is being paid for the space. We are currently utilizing space outside what is now known as the campus, because there isn't enough room there for what we're offering and there is going to be some expansion, as Members know, because of the nursing program in the course of the next little while. So we are going to be short of space in our current location, even more short of space, and we are planning to make sure that we are well positioned to use the public dollars that we have to house the college in the best way possible. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.