Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. (Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to question the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment regarding our important language and it being taught in the schools. We want to be able to teach our language in our schools. I want to ask him a question regarding that. (Translation ends)
...address my question to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. I would like to, first of all, congratulate the Minister and his department for the recent decision to allow the Athabaskan language communities to work independently on their own language curriculum. While there may be some similarities between the Gwich'in curriculum document and the Dene language curriculum, such a move recognizes distinctive language differences of these language communities, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask a question to Minister Dent. How much time and money was spent on the initial curriculum? Mahsi.