Again, I would like to touch on the area of education K to 12. I know there was a political decision -- I think it was made back in the 12th Assembly -- to consider looking at K to 12 in all

communities in the Northwest Territories. I think that just like anything else, it worked in some communities but it didn’t work in all communities. I think that we should somehow look at and assess the progress or the faults of the, I don’t want to say experiment, but I think that in most cases it was a plus for most communities where students are able to stay in the home communities, be part of the family unit. You don’t have to leave home, you can get educated in your home community, but in some cases, that issue still exists and I think that we do have to find ways of assessing that decision. But, more importantly, practically, are we implementing

the policy as it was discussed in the 12th Assembly?

In the 12th Assembly we were part of 51

communities which included ourselves and Nunavut and I think because of the challenges of the time that the concept was thrown out there, we were dealing with even a lot smaller communities than we are talking about here in the West today, and yet the policy was to instruct and seriously look at that. Again, I feel quite strongly that we have to be able to somehow develop assistance.

I know you talked about expanding our bandwidth in our communities and giving them that technology, but again, you have to have someone on the ground by way of a technician ensuring that they give them the expertise, the knowledge that they are going to need in how to use the system, how does the system work, understand the system and make the students make the best use of that system, but you still are going to have to hire people to implement the system. We have to find ways of dealing with that and I feel quite strongly that we do have to find some workable solution and I think that we can’t say that, well, you know, it is up to the education boards. I think that we have to find a unique way of progressing on this one.

Again, I would like to ask the Minister if he would seriously consider going back and looking at what was discussed back then and, more importantly, are we achieving the results we were hoping for back then from the 12th Assembly to where we are

today in 10 years.