Thank you. I do appreciate the independence and flexibility built into the funding regime, because we do appreciate that the DEAs are elected and it's another layer of government and leaders. My point is, though, we spend a lot of government money in a lot of areas and we often do try to find indicators or result reports or something to show some sort of progress or whatever. I do appreciate that we get, I don't know, I guess they are graduation rates we look at, we look at achievement tests, but I have not heard of any testing or result reporting system that would indicate whether...and I'm not really hearing that from the parents either, I'm only familiar with mostly the Yellowknife situation, although when we do go to communities we do try to visit schools and talk to educators and such. In our schools in Yellowknife we have given a considerable amount of money in six or seven years. I know that in 1999, during the 14th Assembly election, the high PTR, pupil/teacher ratio, was a huge issue and the lack of funding for support services was also a big issue. Over the seven years we have, I think, increased our funding by 20 to 30 percent, at least. I just want to be able to tell that given the demand and the needs that were there that this extra money is showing some results. I'm sure they are, I just don't know where. If that system is not in place, would the Minister undertake to see, I don't know, maybe we need to do a survey or something because in our schools we continue to see crowded schools, we continue to see a lot of teachers, students and parents raising a lot of money to subsidize or to enhance the programming that's available. I think it's always good for the government, at all levels, to work together to see if we are spending the money in the best way possible and that we are aware of the goals that we are trying to achieve and that we set up some kind of mechanism to see that that is happening.

In areas like health, we try to look at health indicators and all sorts of issues and I do understand that it might be more difficult in education areas, but I think it would be helpful for us because if we, even for future use, you know, if we are to continue to reduce pupil/teacher ratio...I guess, I mean a basic assumption could be made that lower pupil/teacher ratio is always better than a higher one, but I think there is room for us to see, okay, what extra money do we have or what money are we operating with and are we using it as best as possible. I'd like to ask the Minister if he would work within the department to see if we could come up with some kind of result system. Thank you.