Thank you, Madam Chair. I wanted to just mention another subject that I think has been overlooked since the funding reductions of the mid-'90s and that's home economics. Madam Chair, that's where, as a teenager, I learned to cook, I learned to sew, some pretty fundamental things for a young person to learn; also healthy eating, food groups. Those are the types of things you learned in home economics. Again, I think the home economics teacher nowadays is extinct. We don't have the funding required to have the home economics teachers around, so I just wanted to mention that again for the record.

I wanted to touch on early childhood development. Madam Chair, one of the things that really concerns me is the incident of autism in our community and what support services are out there for parents and children who have autism. There are a number of them in Yellowknife and we don't seem to have anything suited or geared towards early childhood development of children with autism. If you go back to 1970, and that just so happens to be the year I was born, one in 2,500 kids would be born with autism. If you go 25 years later to 1995, it's one in 285 and that number is steadily creeping up. So it's more and more prevalent in our society. I would like to ask the Minister if the department has any plans to set up what would be a day care facility for children with autism. I am talking about the kids who are between the ages of two and four. They don't quite qualify for Four Plus or programs like that, but they are in that grey area. There is a definite need in the community for something like that. So I would like to ask the Minister if the department has plans to address that. Thank you.