Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, adult education learning, it's in our mandate. It's part of what we provide as a government. For me, this is about lack of consultation before such what I would consider a somewhat radical decision. There are many people and will be many people affected by the closures of the learning centres and, for me, know, the reason I would support this motion is what I would hope is that, you know, if Aurora College decides that it no longer wants to provide this service, then I would suggest that ECE under its mandate use this funding to continue the support for the learning centres and take it in house, in department, if the Aurora College no longer wants to do it. Having said that, Madam Chair, if Aurora College does come back, as my colleague Ms. Reid has said -- if they come back with a plan that does, indeed, look at continuing with the learning centres, then, yeah, I would happily vote for a supplemental appropriation to get this funding back and to ensure this important work is being done. But we haven't seen that plan. And, Madam Chair, I don't even know, I mean, $5 million is the number, and I understand my colleague from Yellowknife Centre come up with that number. Is that number appropriate? Well, the MOU at this point, I think, sits with the Minister, so the Minister knows what that funding is and if that funding is not the number, then she can certainly give us the amount in that MOU that does signify what the amount is to run these learning centres.

But for now, I think it's an important message to send. It's certainly affected the Members in my riding as it has others. I've heard loud and clear from constituents saying if the college is not going to do it, who is going to do it, and in my opinion, that should be the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. And if so, if they're going to do it, then it stands to reason that the college no longer requires the funding to do it, and we will take it on ourselves. So for those reasons, Madam Chair, I will be supporting this motion. Thank you.