Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First, I'll say it's probably my fault to just nail rent down as the only problem of cost of living. The reality is a jug of milk probably costs a heck of a lot more in Inuvik and in Yellowknife than it does maybe in Grand Prairie or maybe it does at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, where you can pick it up at your corner shop. So cost of living goes a long ways and I'm wondering if our basic grant isn't keeping pace in recognition of where you may live to attend post-secondary education. I think and I appreciate the Minister's sort of olive branch and say we're going to start looking at that, but I would like to hear it as a clear mandate in the year 2006-07 that we're going to make
sure that we start addressing this type of regional disparity, because if our kids or youth or whatever the case may be can't afford to keep up with the cost of living on the local level, but yet it's cheaper for them to go to another institution, that kind of seems unfair just to think about it in the terms of pushing them away to go to school somewhere else, versus letting them get education in an area where they have family, friends, relatives, et cetera, whatever the case may be, an area that they're familiar with. So I'd like to clearly hear that the Minister is going to take this on as a real priority to recognize the economics and the disparity between going to school either here in the Northwest Territories or other regions of Canada. The fact is, yes, if you were living in downtown Toronto, your rent is going to be very expensive. But it's not just going to school in Toronto, it's not just going to school in Vancouver, it's the whole package of cost of living. Rent is only one element of these factors, Mr. Chairman, it's everything, it's the package. So I'd like to hear that, yes, that there will be a mandate and they're going to work to get to the bottom of it by the time we do our next main estimates a year from now, that we'll be looking at good news on how we're addressing this problem to ensure that every opportunity is afforded to our students to take education where they want and they can afford to. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.