Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This isn't personal or anything. I just think the value of the cost of this particular position at the value given, we could do so much more. We could, for example, turn this into two positions. One in the North, and one in the south. We have fantastic programs growing up. I mean, I would see language programming in the schools in Fort Simpson where I grew up. I'm very well knowledgeable around the issues of -- for example, what's happening around Diga School. You know, I supported the old language nest programs that have changed. And if we want to inspire young people to learn their language, learn their culture, this is exactly how we could do it. So instead of finding ways to create more systems and bureaucracy -- I'm actually saying hire two people with that money. I'm not saying don't do anything. I'm just saying I believe it's -- get it into the schools and in the communities where it belongs. I mean, we don't have a, you know, community like Behchoko everywhere or Wekweeti. I mean, we need to inspire the communities to find their voices and their languages and to -- I would say that this is one of these situations where we should be saying rather than bigger administration, let's get on the ground people -- or sorry, people on the ground and find ways to cultivate this sort of inspiration and opportunities.
So, Mr. Chairman, I'm not going to go through the comments I made earlier. I suspect there will be some objections, which I respect. And this is sort of an on the spur of the moment so I mean, I didn't coordinate it -- this with my colleagues. But I'll let them decide whether they feel that this type of direction in the communities, in the regions, is more effective than someone sitting in an office tower in Yellowknife, you know, behind their computer saying, we want to coordinate better. And frankly, if we want to do something, you know, this is how you do it.
I mean, I should mention, you know, Gwich'in is one of the lowest speaking languages, if memory serves -- I'm not going to pull the statistics up, but if I remember correctly, at one time there was around 250 speakers of Gwich'in. Hiring someone in Yellowknife is not going to inspire that language. Getting somebody, an elder paid or some coordinator for those types of programming in that community, will help inspire those young people to connect with their language and culture. And that's the point is that more bureaucracy doesn't get it us better results. Let's get people in the program and in the community to create this and foster this excitement. And to me, that's the nature of the motion. It's not a -- it's not a mean motion. The problem is people -- and I don't want Cabinet to be sensitive. It's proposed as a deletion but, really, it's a find a different way to do this and it can be done fantastically.
So, Mr. Chairman, I'll leave it at that. If I said much more at this point, I'll just repeat, so I don't want to do that. And I'll let the -- my Members, if they feel the urge to rise to speak to it, either way, it's fine. It's part of the process and the business we do. Thank you.