Thank you so much, Madam Chair. So a laddering program is a program that you take, you know, this course here, and that course there affords you also the experience that you need and the credentialing that you need to get to the second part of the course. And so a great example of that -- not one that we have currently in the Northwest Territories, but that I would love to one day see -- is, for example, if you sign up for a nursing program through Ryerson College today and you for some reason have to withdraw after the first year, they ensure that you finish with your personal support worker program. If you go back and you have remained for two years, they ensure that you finish with, for example, your licensed nursing program. If you stay for all four years, you finish with your registered nursing program.

So that's an example of a laddering program is where based on how many years you stay, you still finish every year with a different credential. And what that accounts for is we know that life comes up, we know that everyone's living circumstances are different and people might have -- they might have an intention to be on a program for four years, but that's not always what people are able to do. So laddering programs allow us to build on our experience within our education and training system. So that are the types of programs that we have in the territory. Thank you.