Mr. Chairman, I want to ask the Minister, in light of the exchange that I heard between the Minister and some of the colleagues in terms of the teachers’ qualifications, that is something I want to raise here with the Minister. When we implement the Junior Kindergarten Program, which is something I support fully, you have my support. We have people in the communities that could be also equivalent to a teacher but just don’t have the degree or diploma. These are four-year-old children, not Grade 10 or 12, just young ones. This is a voluntary program, not mandatory, voluntary. In our schools like Colville Lake, that was to implement this in Colville Lake. In Colville Lake there is one, two areas of schooling, they are both multi-grades in one building. How are you going to put two or three little junior kindergartens in there? Tough as it is in Colville Lake, after operating to the school year, we are finding that we are getting the support for some of our schools, so we may not find a qualified outside teacher to come to Colville Lake to say, yes, I am specialized, I am looking into the community if possible. This is a new program, I will help out here to say yes, and I am pretty impressed with some of the numbers you have stated as to where the people are getting educated to work in the education field.
Again, as much as I appreciate the elders being in our schools, it’s a long overdue battle with the department. Finally we get something. I don’t even know if our Sahtu communities have elders in the schools. Maybe the Minister could help me on that, too, to get some of our own people to help out with this program here.