Thank you, Mr. Chair, and just in addition to my last comments that when we go in in November we'll be trying to get that information and some of the concerns that community might have in terms of when the construction happens, but the project will provide additional instructional, as well as research and support space for the students and staff population, and also includes an additional classroom and a language and culture classroom that'll add approximately 1,300 square feet of additional space. If the Member wants me to get him the list of what it's going to include in it. But that'll be presented in November at the community meeting. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the Minister. I'll look for the commitment or the update after you give it to the community. I don’t want to be disrespectful to the community and work with them, so after that meeting they can maybe share it with me. Now, I guess I'm going onto a bit of a wish list or what is not in this, but when we're talking about learning centres and that, and one doesn't fit all, so some of my smaller communities are looking at utilizing the school to use a learning centre. So part of this question there that that Minister is talking about has this been part of it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, I'll leave it at that.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The survey that I was mentioning and talking about earlier just in reference to junior kindergarten, but I think moving forward I think with learning centres and using the shared space is something that needs to be looked at moving further in terms of constructing schools or adding additions as well, especially in our small communities. We've got to be able to utilize the space the best we can.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Thompson.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the Minister and again I apologize and I realize we're talking about 2017-2018, but I'm hoping that when you guys start doing this junior kindergarten because I realize we're utilizing that presently in my region, so if when you're talking about the survey you can start talking to them about learning centre. So I guess it's just about it's just a bit of a comment, and I thank the Minister for his answers. That'll be all, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've been listening carefully to what the Minister and his staff have said about getting federal support for schools, and that's important, and collaboration and so on. But I want to continue to try to engage him on Ecole Allain St-Cyr expansion. This schools in my riding. I'm getting an enormous amount of complaints about the inability to work with the department in a collaborative fashion. People are stopping me in the streets, I'm getting phone calls, e-mails. Most recently I had somebody stop me on the ice while I'm playing hockey to complain about this. So something is wrong here, and I don’t know exactly what it is. So I'm wondering can I get the Minister to commit to meet with APADY, CFSTNO and the interested Yellowknife MLAs to talk about this proposal that's going into Heritage Canada and how to make sure that this goes in in a collaborative manner that meets everybody's needs. This has a potential to be a win-win for everybody and could save us money. So is the Minister committed to work and have a meeting with all of these parties soon to try to sort this out? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and we can't look at a meeting on that subject and that proposal; however, the proposal that’s going in is what meets our criteria for our standards in building schools for the population and the enrolment rates of that school. I mean, if the Member wants to talk about putting in a glamorous proposal, working together, we still don’t have that schematic design, and we need that design if we want to work to get more funding from Heritage Canada. That's the next step before we can start seeing how we can look at getting access in the federal funding.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I think I'm getting closer here. Is the Minister prepared to have this kind of a meeting where we sit down, everybody can understand better what this Heritage Canada funding program is all about, what's already been submitted, whether there's the ability to change this, whether there's the ability to get letters of support in, and how we can work together on this to get the best possible proposal in and maybe even save us some money. Is the Minister prepared to have that kind of a meeting? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Minister.

Yes, I have committed to sharing that proposal with the parties, and as mentioned in the House earlier, but we've got to get to work too, you know. We've got that court order to build a gymnasium, to build the two classrooms, and then we looked at the two additional classrooms, because we saw the enrolment rates going up, but we can't not miss a building in a construction season. So we've got to get to work at the same time, meeting our court order, our obligations. But we will share that proposal with the francophone community. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm glad to hear that the proposal will finally be shared with the folks that took us to court. Look, I don't want to delay construction of this, nobody wants to delay construction of this, but we have an opportunity to get more money to do it right from the beginning, I mean maybe even save us some money. All I'm asking is the Minister willing to meet? My colleague had the same discussion on the floor of the House earlier and I'm prepared to go that route, but is the Minister prepared to commit to have a meeting like that soon so that everybody's on the same page in terms of moving forward with this proposal to Heritage Canada? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We can meet but I mean, as I mentioned, that we're meeting our standards for construction of capital projects and the court order. In terms of the proposal going forward, as I mentioned, if you want to add the cultural side of things and add things, which is unique because it's only the French schools that can access that funding, we need to ensure what those additions are, and we can't get the specifics until we have that schematic design. I am willing to sit down with the Member a little bit later and give him some ideas on what we can do in terms of next steps as well.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So I've got can meet, meet with me. I'm just asking if the other folks could be in the room at the same time? Is he prepared to go that far? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Minister.

We could meet all together, but I was going to talk to the Member aside and just give him a little bit of other updates on some other things that was happening behind the scenes in terms of some of the work that our department has been doing to move forward on the process. If we have that meeting, we're just going to be talking about what we proposed in terms of our court obligations as well as what we're developing in terms of our standards.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. O'Reilly.