Thank you very much. I can appreciate also some of the local resource problems with regard to aboriginal languages and culture. Some of the things that lead me to think that it can be improved more efficiently is if we use the languages and culture more and it's more supported by our government and as a result by our education department. For instance, it was brought to my attention the Jewish people in Ontario are all really strongly knowledgeable in their languages and in their culture. I was wondering how an almost dead culture continues to be fluent in their language and their culture. It was pointed out to me that what happens is that they got buy-in from the school boards in Ontario to spend a huge amount of time utilizing their language and culture to be taught in the schools. For example, it would be taught all day on a Friday.

It kind of made sense to me that that's something I'd like to pursue as an elected Member to this government, that we should be using our aboriginal languages all day. The way it's situated right now, it's just not working to be speaking English all evening, come to school in the morning, speak Slavey for an hour and then finish off the rest of your school in English. I'm gravitating towards increasing this component. Yes, it's every day, but perhaps let's set it aside for a Friday and spend most of our time in the aboriginal language.

It might take a huge shift in our thinking because now we're not just going to be teaching languages all day, we're going to have to start concentrating on the fundamentals of math and sciences. That's a huge undertaking itself, but I'd like to steer the government in that direction, saying it's valuable enough and this is the direction we should go to maintain our language and culture, and to reaffirm them for our youth and for our future. I'd just like the Minister's comments on those thoughts of guiding our aboriginal languages and culture and firmly entrenching them in our education system.