Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Data collection has been identified as an issue by the Department of Education, Culture and Employment as well as by the Office of the Auditor General in their 2019 review of education in the Northwest Territories. And so we're definitely well aware of the situation and, in the past number of years, have taken steps to remedy it. Every year I table a document in this House, accountability framework, which has information about the results from all of the different education bodies in the Northwest Territories. We produce a JK-12 education system performance measure technical report. This was held up because of Covid but I've tabled one previously. The draft of the next one just came across my desk. So the data is out there. And the findings, I think the Member's probably aware of the findings. I think we're all well aware of the findings.

In the Northwest Territories, we have lower graduation rates than the rest of Canada. And those differ between Yellowknife, the regional centres, and small communities. And small communities, the outcomes are the worst of those three groups.

So we have the data. We have much of the data. But we don't have all of the data at our fingertips. And that's one of the issues that we face, is that the data is in the possession -- it's effectively owned by the education bodies, not by the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. And so we aren't as nimble with it as perhaps we could otherwise be. Thank you.