Thank you, Madam Chairman. And thank you, Minister, for that clarification. So essentially, so the chairman for the Aurora College now will be communicating with you and the office vice versa so it's no different than the regional DEAs and chairmans etcetera. So having said that though, as you know, in the Northwest Territories and from our experience and it's coming up in a lot of meetings I attended, even when I was a chief and attending the Tlicho assemblies, the Dene Nation assemblies, the AFN assemblies, etcetera, even at the national level, there's always been a big gap in education. Even though we get people that graduate from high school, you know, there are huge gaps. You know, they -- or I think my colleague talks about passive -- passing the guys along without just the -- without action of diploma, etcetera. So there's a big gap in education. So even though they got grade 12 and we let them out the door, technically they're in grade 10 or grade 9 level. So, you know, we know that's a problem in our communities, and I think you explained it in the past what are the problems are too as well because I heard it from the House.
Having said that though, Madam Chair, is that in the community in Lutselk'e, we have a problem there too as well because we have a position called community learning support coordinator, and that position hasn't been filled. So usually if you had somebody like that in the community, these are the people that really do the legwork at the local level to help bridge that gap of the students that are falling through the cracks and actually want to bring their levels up so they can go into trades, colleges and universities, etcetera.
So I just want to know if there's a way we could get that filled right away because I understand that there was a problem where, you know, a position was identified -- sorry, not position -- but somebody applied on that position, the position was ready to be filled, and all of a sudden there's an issue on housing. I just want to know it's been almost -- well, I guess June of last year it's been sitting empty but yet our students, our community, really need help. And so I just want to see what we can do to get that position filled right away and so that we could continue to bridge that gap. I think our colleague over here said they were going to build a bridge for us. So if we could do that, I think that would be great. Thank you, Madam Chair.