Awesome, Mr. Chair. That's great news. I wish you the best of luck. And if you need any letters written, I can certainly help out.
I just want to point out with this as well, often when there is an announcement around minority language funding for French languages, for French language education in the Northwest Territories or other programming, there seems to be a tug-of-war between Indigenous language funding and in a sense that Indigenous languages are being left out of that, but these are completely separate programs and separate funding streams. And I think it's really important we support all of our official languages to the best of our ability. And if there's cash out there, we should be trying to get it and invest in all of our languages. It just happens to be a lot of federal support for French language funding, and I think what all minority language groups have in common is that they are minority language groups and we can -- they can find ways to support each other, especially if they're properly funded. So I really do support minority language education, and I hope this -- we continue to see success in this area of education.
I have other -- Members have already spoken about other concerns I have around education. The one thing I will add is can the Minister just update this House on how the STIP day -- or the STIP program is working. I know as a parent with children in various grades that the increasing number of days off on the calendar often will create a lot of strain on just the availability of time for parents to, like, manage their schedule. So it seems like these calendar days continue to increase. I know that this was a way to offset costs and continue to support teachers so there's fewer burnouts and we continue to make the North a good place for teachers to work. And and I know we continue to pay them, I think, the highest in Canada, which is all very good. But I know parents I talk to and, you know, one of those parents is my wife, can often be frustrated when there's another day, another week, where oh, you know, we missed it, something wasn't communicated, and now we have to make arrangements that we didn't anticipate. So how is that program going? Are instructional -- do we have enough instructional hours? What's the feedback been like so far? Thank you.