Thank you, Madam Chair. With the uncertainty of what Aurora College is going to do within the near future in terms of the community learning centres and what's going to happen with staff, if they do not decide -- if they do not come back with a plan that will meet the needs of the smaller communities, with this motion that we're going to be saying we're going to be using it for other initiatives. I think it's a little bit too early because, you know, we're having consultation with the board of governors and seeing what they say before we even know what they're going to do or they're going to present a plan to us, and taking this money away from the department, not from Aurora College, from the department, and using it elsewhere and hopefully the board of governors will come with a plan and saying that, you know, there are certain, maybe half of the community learning centres are able to keep their doors open for their community members. Because it is important. I've always stated this, the education system, it started with the education system. If our education system was solid, then our graduating students wouldn't have to go to adult education just to get into a trades program of some sort. But it starts from there. Now we're having problems with the Aurora College because they don't have -- they don't have the numbers to support these learning centres, but there are some other -- some community learning centres that are doing good work out there. I know from my community, at least, they're promoting it -- promoting adult education on the local radio station on a weekly basis, and that's something that's encouraging. But hopefully, maybe if they can amend this motion of some sort to say what -- you know, if the board of governors come back with a plan that meets our needs, meet the needs of the communities, then this money will be going back towards the learning centres.

It's frustrating, you know, having to go back to your community and they ask you questions, and you don't have the concrete answers because I don't think anybody does right now. The board of governors will make it known to us next week what they're going to do. We're going to be given an opportunity to ask them questions and see what their plans are. But it's very frustrating in a small -- a big territory with a small number of population, it's -- we find it very difficult to meet the needs of our communities who are spread out in a wide area. So hopefully we can come up, the board of governors can give us a plan so we can use that money towards adult education because it's really needed. It's something that's needed in the communities. I'm going to keep stating it, that it starts with the education, kindergarten to grade 12, that's what's failing us. It's not adult education that's failing us. It's kindergarten to grade 12. It started -- it's the governments before this one, and it's continuing. It's time to stop it, then maybe we'll have some good, strong leaders coming from the smaller communities. Thank you, Madam Chair.