Thanks to the Minister for the information. I note the Minister, in his remarks, said to improve student performance, the department has initiated a broad-based review of the NWT education system toward developing a territory-wide action plan. That was in his opening remarks. Just now the Minister mentioned talking to people on the front lines, and I absolutely agree that needs to be done. But if this is a broad-based review, if this is a review which is going to look at the total education system, I would caution that we don’t want to put too much weight on what the people on the front lines say. They certainly have experience, they certainly have opinions, I know I would, were I there, but I caution that we don’t rely only on one segment of our system, that we rely on the experience of those people that are working in our system, but that we also rely on research, that we rely on activities and systems that are operational elsewhere in the world. The Finnish one is one that was referenced last week, I think.
I think for us to get a good result from this review, if it’s going to be as broad as it sounds like it’s going to be, and if it’s going to look at every aspect of our education system, we must make sure that we look at it in a broad picture, that we look at every aspect of our system and that we don’t just concentrate on one segment of our system. That’s pretty much a comment, I don’t have any more questions, Mr. Chair.