Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll try to get in as much as I can before the Minister starts.

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I just want to start off with saying I know how important advanced education and careers are to people, but what I think happened in the mid-1990s is starting to come back to haunt the Northwest Territories, and that is funding was at such a level where it came out of schools and basically I believe the education system got it in the mid-90s and the first things to go when dollars were tight were things like industrial arts, music, home economics and now it's kind of come full circle. We're starting to get some more dollars, but we don't have a workforce. We have a graduation rate of, I think, 43 percent, which is absolutely abysmal. That's something I think that this government needs to take quite seriously. I know the Minister has talked about testing and other things to try to get kids to graduate from high school; but if that's not a scary stat, I don't know what is. Forty-three percent of our children graduate from high school.

The lowest populated province of Prince Edward Island, I believe, has a graduation rate of 85 percent or 86 percent. It's twice as much as it is here in the Northwest Territories. I think we've got a tremendous amount of work to do to try to...