Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My questions, I’m going to get away from early childhood development. My colleague has asked some good questions around that and the dollars that we did fight for over the last two budget sessions here. I’m going to go into school contributions.

The school contribution provides contributions to education authorities for the operation of NWT schools. I’d just like to, looking at some of the numbers here from the 2011-2012 actuals and the revised estimates of 2012-2013 to this year’s main estimates, there’s been less than a 1 percent increase to the budgets that are going out to the education authorities. With forced growth and everything that we’re dealing with within the regions, speaking with some of our educators in the regions, they feel that the budgets they’re getting offered aren’t sufficient to run the proper programs and services for both staff and students.

I just wanted to get an idea of what the funding formula is and how they categorize the funding formula, whether it’s by region. Maybe if the Minister can elaborate how they come to be at the dollar amount for each authority within the Northwest Territories.

Obviously, representing the Beaufort-Delta region and working with the Beaufort-Delta Education Authority the costs of travelling in that region is very high and the cost of living is very high. I just want to know how they come up with the funding formula and if that funding formula does actually put some of the education authorities below what other regions are getting for their dollars, especially when we live in such a high cost of living area in the territory.