I’ll try and rephrase the question. I’m not wanting to know what training principals take. I think it’s similar to the previous situation we had with homelessness where it was done off the corner of somebody’s desk. I see that counselling within many small schools is something that’s done off the corner of somebody’s desk. They have other jobs and other priorities and this is one thing that gets added on to the many other jobs that they do. Sometimes it’s a principal but sometimes it’s another teacher. So to give the training only to principals will not solve the problem.

What I’m suggesting is that we need training for whoever is providing the service in the school, whether it’s the principal or the vice-principal or the phys. ed. teacher or the music teacher. It doesn’t matter. Somebody needs to have some sort of education, some sort of backup, some sort of document, some sort of mentor who can assist them when they are trying to provide counselling services to the kids. I leave that as a comment.

I appreciate that the Minister is going to discuss it with board chairs, but I do feel that it’s something that needs a department focus and that the department should mandate and ask the boards to do as opposed to… Sorry. They should tell the boards to do it as opposed to asking them. I think the department should facilitate getting the training that’s required and certainly there are experienced persons within our schools in the NWT who can do the kind of training that I’m thinking of. It doesn’t have to be a massive six-week course. Just a comment.