Thank you, Madam Chair. Since the 19th Assembly, I've been bringing to this House about the issues of education in our small communities and, in particular in Lutselk'e, where the leadership contacts been saying that they're still waiting to fill positions at the adult education centre. And I brought it here to the House. I raised it on the floor. I was assured that it's going to be looked a the and that position's going to be filled. Here we are now going into the 20th Assembly, a year into the mandate, and yet that position hasn't been filled.

You know, right now as it is, when I first heard about the cuts to the small communities on the education learning centres, I had to read it on Cabin Radio and I was a little disappointed that we had -- every time something has to happen, we have to go there and read it. My concern here is that, you know, this issue of restoring balance of this government and right now as it is, you know, we're talking about $5 million that they brought forward in the -- they're trying to figure out how we could use that money, but right now, they don't need it. But at this point in time, you could always come back and revisit it as mentioned by my colleagues.

Right now as it is, every time I go back to Fort Resolution, I drive by the adult learning centre and they have a teacher there, and she's concerned because her job's only there until June. And what happens after that, you know? It's a good thing that here in N'dilo and Dettah we do use the facilities at the college, but the thing is that we have nothing in our community of Dettah and N'dilo. We have some places where we could probably put them, but we're concerned. Every time a kid graduates from high school, they're about two grades behind. And if they want to go to college or university, we have to go to upgrading. And here we're now in our small community of Lutselk'e, of Fort Resolution, that's what happens. So, Madam Chair, I will support this motion. I just hope that -- again, I just want to say that small communities do matter. Mahsi.