Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We will certainly be following up on this. We have had some initial discussions with the chairs of all the divisional education councils across the Northwest Territories. Since the report the Member talks about has come out, there have been some changes to the formula that is used to fund schools and the funding has been disproportionately increased for the small schools in comparison to larger schools in recognition of some of those challenges. We are planning to continue our work with divisional educational councils to ensure that we are delivering as good a program as possible in the small communities, but I would like to say, as I said in my statement on Friday, we have some good news.

While it's not all great news coming out of the Alberta achievement tests, you have to remember that those tests are not designed for our population. We are not positive that they reflect our population, particularly in small communities where students may be coming in with another language as their first language. So we have to recognize that the best indicator of how students are doing is their teachers. The fact that we are seeing an increase in 34 percent of the numbers of students from small communities registered to write departmental exams this year leads us to believe that we are on the right path when it comes to delivering education in the small communities. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.