Thank you, Madam Chair, for your indulgence here, but I do have a couple of follow-up questions here. I have to tell you, Madam Chair, that I know everybody here are parents, too, but I happen to spend lots of time with parents who are involved in a number of parents' advisory groups in Yellowknife, not just in my riding but in other schools. Those are parents who are quite fair minded. They are very keen. They are very aware of what is going on in their schools, in their children's schools. They know what the strengths and weaknesses of the school systems are. They know how to compare our city and our schools to big cities like Edmonton or Alberta. Many of them have been serving in parents advisory groups for many years. They understand the trend. They know that, usually, the kids here do much better in Grade 3 than in Grade 6, and maybe not as well in Grade 9. They understand that the way the tests are implemented and tested in Alberta are quite different than up here. They are very fair minded, rational and intelligent people. I think the Minister and the department is missing out by choosing not to reveal this because, as the deputy minister suggested, you are looking at some people who are really strong, some who are not. You are looking at training the teachers, or improving curriculum or enhancing the inclusive schooling. All those are ideas that these parents can handle, let me assure you. I think that you would go a lot further and make it a better educational system by including them, and talking to them, and making this information available. That is my take from talking to them. I don't think there is anything here that they are not going to be able to handle. I think, though, in talking to them -- and they have asked me to bring this up in this House -- by not releasing it or by saying you could get your information about your child, about your school privately, but we are not going to announce a wide assessment, it just gets them feeling that that information is not being revealed because it is not very good. We have no idea if it is or not. I have no idea. I have no reason to assume that. I think Yellowknife has an excellent school system and I am a product of the school system here. I think it meets the challenges everywhere they face. If there are weaknesses or things to improve, I think they would be prepared to work on that with the school, teachers and everyone.
Another thing is, I don't understand this thing about how we can't rely on this test because it is a snapshot of any given time and day. You could say that about anything. The Olympic athlete who may not have a good day on that day, but scores are scores and we live in a society where we would like to have some kind of objective study about where things are at, not to label, categorize and reprimand anybody, but just as a way of having one more check about how we are doing, what we can do better, or where we are falling short. There are all sorts of positive ways to spin this thing. I don't know. I would like to urge the Minister and the department to revisit that issue because I could tell you that I had the occasion to again go up and down the street this weekend canvassing for the heart and stroke foundation. I have had some parents raising that issue with me. I don't know if it is going to be an ongoing issue, but just looking at it from my own objective point of view, I just think there could be a lot more gains to be had by revisiting that. I would like to ask the Minister if he would consider reconsidering that. Thank you.