Thank you, Madam Chair. Just to go back to Ms. Lee's previous question, I want to make sure that she understands that the numbers that I can provide relating to the impact on the boards for the change in funding for the full-day kindergarten will be estimates, but we will endeavour to get that information to her as quickly as possible.

Madam Chair, in 2003, the expectation was that in Yellowknife, because of the population growth, that we would in the not-too-distant future need to see an extra school being built. However, it's become clear since that time that the population growth in Yellowknife is not happening in the kindergarten to Grade 12 population. This is something of a revelation to us. It's not something that was foreseen; the change in the demographic makeup. As a result, we were looking at what we needed to do with our facilities in Yellowknife.

There were different pressures. Three of the school boards in town were demanding new facilities. So in order to try and see where we were heading with that, we put together a group to discuss where we needed to be on a 10-year education facility plan in Yellowknife. That's not

dissimilar to the approach that was taken back in the early '90s when, again, there was some pressure for a new school and we got the school boards in Yellowknife to work together to develop a 10-year plan. It's also very similar to the process that has been undertaken in Inuvik where the community has worked together with different stakeholders to examine what they need for schools and have, through their process of discussion, come up with a different response to what we had initially proposed for the community as a result.

Again, we've had similar situations in other communities where, you know, like Tulita, where the community itself has had some input into the planning process to make sure that the plan reflects the wish of the community.

I was hoping, through this process, that we would get a better understanding of what was needed. The report certainly confirmed the issue that there was adequate space in Yellowknife, but it also indicated that we needed to redistribute students in Yellowknife. It says that very clearly in the report. It recommends that the School Facilities Planning Committee be convened to take a look at how that might take place. So I'm following up on the recommendations that were made in this 10-year facility plan. Which, by the way, was made up of representatives from all of the various stakeholders in the educational field in Yellowknife, as well.

In terms of why the college is not in here, we talked about that yesterday. The college wouldn't normally fit in because of the timing that we know for a typical capital plan it doesn't need to start until next year. As I have already said, it is my intention to bring the proposal for the college campus forward in the next business plan that goes before the Members. Thank you, Madam Chair.