Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Perhaps we are in a level of detail here not easily pursued in this forum. I am disappointed that we weren't able to levelize that field, but I will take it up with the Minister in the near future and see if we can continue to go to work for helping out adults who want to pursue upgrading their education. That's all, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Next on the list I have Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I want to ask the Minister about the student grants and the success rate of the students who come up from the southern provinces to the Northwest Territories and suddenly they are eligible for these grants to further their education and career. How successful are we at retaining these students? I know we can't stop them from leaving the Northwest Territories once they get their education. Are we getting good value in terms of educating our people here and having them stay in the Northwest Territories to work for the northern people? Thank you.

Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a difficult number to come up with partly because we don't have any way of requiring people to report what they do after they finish school. People don't just qualify for grants because they have lived in the Northwest Territories. They have to have gone to school in the Northwest Territories. So you qualify for one semester of post-secondary study for every year of school that you've done in the Northwest Territories. That's the only way you qualify. It used to be that you just had to live here, now you had to have gone to school in the Northwest Territories. We think people who have lived here through kindergarten to Grade 12 are likely going to come back in any case.

I will be tabling, later in this session, a booklet that outlines our indicators of success in the post-secondary field. Some of that information, what we are able to glean from people who have graduated from post-secondary and been supported by the Territories, will be available in that book. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I look forward to the Minister stating this information for further discussion at another time. I would also ask the Minister at another time for the type of tracking I am asking for. I don't need it right away, but I need this type of information. Our territory is probably one of the best programs that supports students through post-secondary education. I just want to know are we getting good value in terms of our investment. I think we are, I just want to know some numbers. I wanted to leave it at that because the Minister said he doesn't have it right now with him. I can accept that. I can wait until some time down the road. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have an ongoing program of trying to contact graduates to find out how things are going and we will continue to do that and report as we can.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Thank you, committee. We are on page 8-25, activity summary, income security, grants and contributions, grants, total grants and contributions, $9.051 million. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a quick question for the Minister. The student grant, that goes toward their tuition and all their costs associated with going to post-secondary education. That's on the student financial assistance, right? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Minister.

It's part of student financial assistance. Depending on the student's situation, they may qualify for grants, they may qualify for remissible loans and they may qualify for repayable loans. There are a number of different factors that come into play when you are talking about student financial assistance. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Anything further, Mr. McLeod? Thank you, committee. We are on page 8-35, income security, grants and contributions, grants, total grants and contributions, $9.051 million.

Thank you, Page 8-38, information item, student loan revolving fund. Any questions?

Agreed. Page 8-39, information item detail, funding allocated to education authorities. Questions? Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One question I had was for the private school, Western Arctic Leadership Program, 2007-08 funding position. We never funded any position, I take it, in that program. It's all funded elsewhere and we just provide them with $275,000 of annual funding. Thank you.

Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The students in that program attend school at the high school in Fort Smith. So it's just a situation where we make a contribution to the residence.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya.

That's good enough. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.