Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a few comments on the Minister's opening remarks. I was going to talk about the early childhood development program, but it has been addressed quite extensively already and I am sure the Minister has gotten the message that that's a program that everybody is hesitant to see disappear. I know that the Minister will do whatever he can to find funds to keep that program going. But I was wondering if the Minister could maybe expand a little bit more when we're giving numbers out how they relate to actuals, how we can see where the system is improving. For example, on page 3 of his opening comments where the Minister mentions that in 1999 there were 81 aboriginal grads and in 2003 there were 113. Then he goes on to say that there were 620 students enrolled in community high schools in 1998-99 and in 2003-04 there 872.

What I'm trying to get at, Madam Chair, is this could be strictly from an increase in population, for example. Is there a direct correlation between the 81 and the 113 in 620 and 872? How do those figures show any kind of an improvement in the system?