Mahsi, Mr. Chair. When I speak to the college, obviously we work closely with that community’s learning centre so we have them in the communities, most of the communities. Yes, the Member is quite correct about…and we’ve been supportive along the way on the needs assessment in the Sahtu region and it’s going really well. We have all the stakeholders involved, all the parties from the Sahtu region and various industry members. So, there is a lot of discussion and opportunity for us to move forward on this, and obviously this will possibly lead to a Sahtu institutional discussion that the Member is referring to. There is a current feasibility study and there’s a lot of work that needs to be done in this area. We’re interested in how that’s going to pan out. My department is going to be working very closely with the Sahtu region on this particular matter.

Another area, obviously, is literacy. I totally agree with the Member that literacy should be a prime focus in the small, isolated communities, and we are doing that right now. Obviously, we need to do more in this area. So, that will be my push from my department’s perspective.

The Healthy Food Initiative, there are various parties involved in this, various departments. There’s MACA, there’s Health and Social Services. But primarily for schools, we contribute $650,000 towards the schools and they manage the funding. The funding should be going directly to the students for their programming, for their breakfast program. We’ve heard over and over that this is a need, so we are pursuing this now. We’re getting a lot of positive feedback from the community schools that they very much appreciate the money that’s been identified for this, because a lot of our students are going to school on an empty stomach and we don’t want that. So we are doing the best we can to support those students.

The Colville Lake programming that the Member is referring to, we’ve looked at the building, as well, and obviously my department will be very interested in what the community has to offer. It’s not only

Colville but there are other communities that also showed interest potentially looking at these opportunities of possibly building and then leasing back. But it is an area that our government has to look at where we’re going against a borrowing limit but how can we best approach it, because we don’t have the capital infrastructure to date to deal with all those communities that want to build, whether it be the college or the schools or health centres in our communities. I’ll be interested in what the community has to offer and bring it back to my Cabinet colleagues and have some discussion on what’s the best approach. So we’re quite open to those ideas as well. Mahsi.