Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The comments I have is something that the Minister and I have been working on for some time. I am going to ask the Minister: how do we solidify elders into our education system? I know the Minister has been contemplating about the different systems that support this and systems that don’t support the elders in our schools. The Minister has been at it for a long time, but I think it is time now that he comes and tells us this is how we are going to do it. We have to have some action here. He held this for almost two years, trying to get elders into our schools. As we continue talking, elders are leaving us and some elders we want them into our schools, but for reasons unknown, they are unable to be in our school system. I am disappointed that this hasn’t been done yet. See how we can get the elders into our school. I will be asking the Minister in terms of where do we fit these elders into our school.

I want to tell the Minister that I am very happy to hear that there is going to be a mandatory orientation for all teachers into our culture in the Northwest Territories. It is a long overdue requirement of the education system. I am glad to see this is going to go forward. I look forward with the Minister and, most importantly, the local education authorities and our local education councils in our communities to see what type of input we are going to have to put this into motion. I hope it is not coming down instead of from the bottom up. When teachers are coming into our communities, they are going to have a good orientation, hopefully, on the land, not in the school and in the community. I know they do this in one of the Tlicho communities and other communities where they bring everybody out to the land and teach about our culture. I am looking forward to that, seeing that the community can do this for our teachers. I think that is a significant step in terms of a better education and having teachers understand who we are, Dene or Metis or Inuvialuit people. I think that is really important. I want to congratulate the Minister on that.

That is one thing, but Cabinet’s rollout is another thing. I hope you can do it within the life of this government. I want to also say to the Minister that there are dollars going into the smaller remote communities. He has been listening to us in that area. I look forward to seeing through the detail as to how it is going to roll out into our small and remote communities

I am glad that the Minister is putting a very important symposium, this spring 2010, on our language and I look forward to the rollout of that symposium in the North here, how we are going to work with our communities.

The one point I would like to say is that the Minister is going to put $100,000 to promote and facilitate

access to Northwest Territories secondary school diplomas for adults. I don’t really know what that means, until we get more into details as to these dollars here. I want to let the Minister know that the two gentlemen, the two young guys that went out to school were hoping to do well in school and get some funding and support from this government or the federal government. It is disheartening that they didn’t get their support and are back in the community of Tulita and doing nothing. They are all rambunctious, ready to go and want to do these things and now they are in Tulita. It is terrible. We certainly let them down big time. I am going to fight for these guys here. It is just awful. These two young guys had graduated, this one guy had graduated, one grade 12 course diploma and the other guy... Something has got to get done. I have that issue here, it is bugging me.

I want to ask the Minister, after, in terms of the smooth transition from his department to housing in terms of the Public Housing Subsidy. From what I know, there is nothing smooth, it is always rocky. So how are we going to have a seamless transition or a smooth transition to housing? There is nothing smooth, Mr. Chairman. We like to see it on paper but, in reality, you know, it is not that, so I want to work with him on that. I am very happy that the Minister has agreed to do that, listen to the people on this side. I am very happy that the Ministers have decided that this needs to happen. How you get over that side and start it up, it might be just a whole window dressing, rub off the ECE and put on NWT Housing Corporation, the same policies, I don’t know.

Mr. Chairman, I want to say that the food and nutrition...