Thank you, Mr. Chair. It was quiet for so long, I promised you I wasn't going to say anything. But, you know, it's -- I'm happy that my colleague here thinks that everything is going to be coming to Yellowknife again, but I'm sorry. The headquarters is going to be in Fort Smith. And the president will be located there. And, you know, we've already started the transition -- we have a lot of incredible staff at the college already in all three campuses. And building on all three campuses with the headquarters in Fort Smith is -- the one thing I want to mention is about the college facilities, of course Fort Smith has the old residential school complex that is a major problem, and I think you saw that when you came to Fort Smith, and it's -- you know, the -- there's a lot of people that would like to have that upgraded as one of the first steps in the capitol plan because you got to get rid of that old residential school.
I've been involved with the Aurora College for many years, from 1970 I think it was until -- it was about 40 years. And I remember when the students were -- like, there was lineups for 375 students at -- at all three meals every day, 365 days of the year, at the beginning what happened here is that there was -- you know, for the amount of population we have, we've got to decide where the main courses are going to be and all these things, because if you think you're going -- you have to look at the dollars, and you can't divide three courses into three different campuses because that doesn't work either. And that's what happened with that -- with the way the college went.
But you know, I'm very pleased to say that the people at the college are -- all the staff working there, including the administration -- I just want you to commit, Mr. Chair, for the Minister to commit that he would come to Fort Smith and meet with the mayor and council and meet with the staff at the college with the -- with the preliminary plans so that they all know where everything stands because I think -- I read everything but a lot of stuff I can't share because I'm limited, right. So it will be just nice to reenforce those. And you can do at this college here, and you could do it in Inuvik. But we have to have some discussion also with the communities that the main campuses are in. And with that, that's all I have to say. I'm just very happy that the headquarters is going to be in Fort Smith. Thank you, Mr. Chair