Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I will be supporting the motion. I have the same issues in Sachs Harbour right now with no grade 10, 11 and 12 teacher in the community. Students are leaving for the community of Inuvik for schooling and there’s no place for them to stay. No safe place that they’re saying that there is to stay. We do have plans. I’m trying to work with the Minister’s office to get a place in the community for them so they can continue their grade 10, 11 and 12. The options are very little.

The community needs a high school teacher. It’s gone too far already. The social passing is in now that kids are being passed and having to go back as soon as they’ve got grade 12 for a year or year and a half of education in Inuvik or Arctic College just to try to get into Aurora College. That’s not right. We should be stopping this right from grade K to 12 in the smaller communities. Stop it before it starts.

I wish we could fix this all in one fell swoop but it can’t be done. We have to start off slow. I think this motion will start it off. It’s all small communities that are being affected, not just the ones that are named, all across the Territory.

I do support it and I look forward to putting it to the vote.