Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. And then I would like to say the same thing too. Congratulations, you guys did a good job, especially with the student finance assistance program, lifting the cap for the Indigenous students, because that's good. That's going to help a lot of our students in the small communities because usually the first year that they leave, you know, after graduating high school, they spend their first or second year upgrading and that's not -- it's a concern for a lot of parents. I'm not discrediting the teachers or anything because we have a lot of good teachers. We have a lot of good Indigenous teachers as well. They're doing good. And the only thing that's lacking, the reason why they're going through all this or going to upgrade, is because you know that -- I've said it many times too that we need a lot of programs and services. We need more resources to help so that -- so we can improve our education system.

So I think that's where -- and, like, even with the speech and language pathologists, and we need that. And then even for multigrades or for, you know, elementary, even some junior high, there are -- you know, like, it's a multigrades, you know, like, where -- one teacher's for two or three class -- or grades, you know. So that's a disadvantage, especially in the small communities. So this really helps, this lifting the cap for the Indigenous students compared if our students were living in the larger centre, you know, where the education system is good, you know, like in Yellowknife, Hay River, Fort Smith, Inuvik or, you know, larger regional centre where they have more resources.

And we don't hear much of those young people going into upgrading program unless it's an Indigenous student, you know, because of the residential school, there's a lot -- still a lot of them are still affected by the trauma. You know, they're still affected by what happened in the residential school. So that has an impact on them, you know. So we cannot dismiss that. So I am very grateful and thankful that you guys did that because a lot of students were asking about that, you know, because some students they use up their student finance assistance program by taking two or three, four access program, you know, at one time, so. And by the time it came for their career choice, they have no more money or not enough money to carry on to finish their studies so that's good, you know. Like, I'm -- I'm happy about that, which I was against that cap too myself because it's not helping our young people, our students coming from the small communities. So I'm sure a lot of parents will probably be happy, especially in the small communities. So I just want to say thank you for that. I'm happy with that.

But on the other hand, I just wanted to ask can we get a -- is there a data available about how many of these students, especially from the outlying communities, from the regions, are accessing student finance assistance program?