Thank you, Mr. Chair. What is happening right now in schools across the Northwest Territories is a bit of a mixed approach in terms of how guidance counselling is done. In some of the larger schools, there are more dedicated resources to providing guidance counselling, career advice, scheduled planning to students, but by and large across the Northwest Territories in the medium to smaller schools it's actually a teacher who takes it on and does it as part of their teaching day. They're not full-time resources and they're not ear-marked necessarily as a guidance counsellor.

What we do have, as the Minister, indicated is, through these additional six resources, what we would be doing is not just having those positions available out there to supplement what is available by the way of counselling, but also creating additional resources and supports to send out to schools so that these individuals that do exist out there that are providing the services to students have more consistent and better, clearer resources to support students.

The other thing that I think the Minister referenced is that there is a difference between the guidance resources and the mental health or other counselling resources that exist in schools. We're not by rolling out these six positions, depleting or reducing the supports that exist in schools right now. Thank you, Mr. Chair.