Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Right now DECs and DEAs can do that sort of thing. That's permitted. We would welcome seeing it happen. The problem is often, as the Member has already noted, the resources and finding teachers who are fluent in the local languages is sometimes a problem. There's no question that it can be done. There can be more done in aboriginal languages in the school and we encourage more and more of it to take place. I think it's important to remember that the schools can't save the language. Again it comes back to family and community buy-in. There has to be more than just an hour a day or all day Friday at school in order to make the language stay alive and thrive. It has to be something that people in the community are supporting and happy to use at home.

One of the areas where we have tremendous success in the school systems is in the Tlicho region. You visit Chief Jimmy Bruneau School and when you walk through the halls there you don't hear teenagers speaking English. You tend to hear the teenagers speaking in their own

language. When you know that the kids are comfortable in their own language, they're speaking it without being in a classroom, without being forced to speak it, that's when you know that the language is going to stay alive and thrive. That's what you need to see. That's not happening because it's being taught at the school, it's happening because there's community leaders' support for the language, and the leaders and the community use their language all the time. The schools are part of it, but there has to be a real broad support for language use in the communities around the North in order to make sure that the languages stay alive and thrive.

We can do our part, and DEAs and DECs should be doing as much as they can to use the language of the communities, but we need families and leaders to buy in as well.