Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Minister made some comments in terms of the program delivery services. I've been listening to some of the Members and there's two points I want to make to the Minister, and one was raised by my colleague here, Mr. Chair, in terms of a new way of thinking on some of the unique situations we have to deal with in our small communities, even in Yellowknife here, in terms of the

schooling we are presenting with our children and there are some unique, special needs that our children need in terms of educating them and sometimes it's difficult for some of these teachers. They work hard in our communities and they are very dedicated to their profession. Sometimes I'm not too sure if the teachers sometimes get the amount of quality training when they are prepared to come to our smaller communities, on such issues as FAS or autism or even just family violence. It's no fault of theirs. They have a job to do and they do it well and they work hard at it. Sometimes it's very difficult for them to know that, for example, there was a loss of a family member to this young child, and how to deal with the grief issues and that. Just special things that I know they have support from counselling services and that's available. Sometimes it's very difficult with some of these issues. I think that's one, Mr. Chairman, that the department in long-term planning, looking at new ways to deal with the issues, especially the teachers now that come into our communities have to deal with cross-cultural issues. There are some good examples, Mr. Chair, that one of my colleagues talked about, the on-the-land program. The Minister responded by making a specific point to one of my colleagues in terms of that type of program. So we have some real unique needs in our communities.

I guess one thing I'm looking forward to is, is there any chance that the people in the Northwest Territories, the MLAs, professionals, people in the communities, will look at a large territorial meeting on education just in our region? Maybe it has already happened, that there's a special meeting just for careers and education and the unique challenges we have in our communities.

We also look at some of the good things we've done in the North to commend the Minister on bringing the residential school issue into our communities. That's an important part of our history that's long overdue, Mr. Chair, in these type of program deliveries in our communities that we are faced with. So that's one point I want to make. I want to ask the Minister for his comments to that, and I have one more after that. Thank you.