Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe that we will just continue our discussion with regard to the professional improvement fund. For further clarification, this will be the line item in our budget to ask the ministry to look at some improved incentive to our aboriginal teachers to learn aboriginal languages so they can go back to our school to teach the aboriginal languages. I believe, just to confirm, that this is the line item for the professional improvement fund, to request such a thing there, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If the Member is asking if we could ensure that there are incentives like aboriginal language bonuses, that's certainly something we can take a look at, particularly as we get into Collective Agreement time. It may interest the Member to know that on page 9-18, we are showing $1.232 million for NWTTA professional improvement. That does include the new $50,000 for aboriginal language training, so that has been added specifically for that purpose. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad the Minister pointed out that there is a new allocation just for that specific area for growth in our aboriginal languages. I see on page 9-21 there is further discussion on official languages, so I will leave my discussions for that page.

I do want to address our support for culture and the arts. It's something that has grown in the Nahendeh region and Fort Simpson. We have good organizations there where they have lots of good initiatives. They have Open Sky which originally started as a festival on a yearly basis, but now they've grown to where they are a year-round organization providing and stimulating arts and culture in Fort Simpson and for the region.

One of the barriers that we are facing lately is that even though there is lots of accessible funding, they are finding that getting funding for their organization as a non-government organization for O and M, which was to keep the organization funding, we are having barriers getting that. I don't know if we have specific funding for O and M for such an organization, but I see there is lots of programming funding and, quite often, if you get the right manager, they can keep things going by applying to 20 different funding proposals and garnering enough money out of each of them to pay his or her salary. That's not really supporting or stimulating growth for arts and culture for any organization. I am just wondering if the Minister has looked at that gap there and seen what kind of funding would be available to a group, an organization, in terms of helping it continue to foster arts and culture in their specific regions and providing O and M funding for their specific organization. With that, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I can't point to a specific program that provides base funding or core funding for organizations. In those instances where we've got an organization that is providing a service to the region, it's always useful to sit down with the regional superintendent and discuss what possibilities there might be for support in various ways. The Member is right; it often takes a good executive director or somebody with some application ready skills to get some of this money, but it helps, too, to work with the people in the department who can help point you in the right direction. Our staff would be prepared to do that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On a totally different note, I notice that this line item, or this activity area, also does geographic place names. I don't know how applicable it is because I think the intent here was for changing names, but does this take care of maps and mapping?

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like Mr. Cleveland to answer that, please.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Cleveland.

Thank you, Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Next I have Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a single point here and it's a bit further to the discussion we had about the Arts Strategy earlier on. The Minister indicated that he's willing to address some of the concerns the arts community has expressed about the strategy and that one option of doing this would be to invite the members of the original advisory panel to come together again and see where some of their concerns or their ideas lie.

I wanted to see if I could press the Minister a bit more on this to see if he would give committee the commitment to do this. I understand that there has to be some collaboration with his colleague, Mr. Bell. But it has been a good 10 months, Mr. Chairman, since the strategy itself was released in the fall of 2004, response from the arts community came in over the course of the winter. All of this has been in play for about a year now and I would like to get a commitment to bring some kind of a process into play that would address some of these concerns and see if we can lift this Arts Strategy out of the corner. Mr. Chair, a commitment to call in the panel members. Can the Minister give us some assurance on that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I certainly think that's the way to go, to bring in the original panel members and ask them to provide us with their advice again. I am certain that ITI will be interested in cooperating the same way. So I am confident we will be able to do that.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's all on this page. Just to confirm with you, we are still on 9-16 and 9-17?

Thank you, Mr. Braden. That's correct. Next I have Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just one more follow-up on the early childhood services. In my last round, the Minister called out different programs that are under this area. In his opening statement, he states that he is allocating $4.7 million for this and also 900,000 and something in trust in day care money from the feds. I am just wondering if we should look at this program to see if we could somehow rationalize it better, or are all the programs allocated so exclusively oriented and serving the niche that we can't somehow try to see how we could combine this, or just make it more refined, so we can serve more kids with that money that we have? I am asking whether it's time to review it, or is it so specialized that we can't really touch it? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Dent.