Under clause 23, the student representative may attend public meetings of the district educational authority. Can they attend public meetings of divisional education councils? Why is it only limited to the district education authority?

I would like some clarification on section (3), where the Minister can cancel or suspend registration of a school and what (b) says, "in the opinion of the Minister, the students are not achieving acceptable progress." In other parts of the act, we give parents some responsibility and they can participate in working out educational plans. My question is what say does a parent have with regard to this section?

Thank you. Clause 19.(3) sets the qualifications for a child who's eligible. Are there any provisions for exceptions or is this the rule, even if we have a potential Einstein who's born on December 29th, you know, one or two days before. There's no exception if this particular clause passes?

I would just like to say for the record that for clauses 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 --and I only want to say it once --we have to respect treaty and aboriginal rights because all these clauses have the word "tuition" in them, and I want to make the record very clear that I'm very concerned about setting tuition fees on aboriginal people. I'm opposed to that at this stage.

I would like some clarification on clause 9 dealing with the processes and who may be designated. Are they talking about professional people, doctors, or just anybody? I need some clarification on who can assess a student.

(Microphone turned off) ...clause 9. Thanks.

In a community you need a lot of cooperation, a lot of coordination to accommodate students with special needs, especially handicapped students. I just want to say that we have to continue to encourage any programs which will enhance the student's ability to go to school, and also to be integrated into community activities. One area that has concerned me --and I've raised it several times over the last four years --is the issue of people who seem to fall between the cracks once they're out of school. It used to be at 18, but I think now the age is 19 or 21. They had special programs for handicapped people going to school who were integrated into the school system. Then, once they ceased to become a student because of age, there was no one else to look after them in this transition period. Hopefully, with the amalgamation of the departments of Health and Social Services, working in conjunction with Education, Culture and Employment, we'll continue to look after these people who are severely handicapped.

One other area that was raised by Yellowknife District No. 1 was the area of funding and ensuring that the department and the different boards work out proper formulas. I know it's in here, that there are qualifications to how much money there is and there are limitations because of the fiscal positions of the government. But if we are making it permissive, then there has to be a mechanism so that things can be worked out satisfactorily for the people we are trying to include under this category. Those are some comments I wanted to make. Thank you.

Thank you. Some of the issues I wanted to raise have already been raised by Mr. Dent, but I just want to make a couple of comments. In the whole area of inclusive schooling, one of the issues with the committee when we were travelling around was trying to put a definition on "inclusive schooling." People tend to group any special needs, which is what it is, into this category. So I'm just wondering if there is a set definition for inclusive schooling.

Under subsection (b), what definition of "residency" are we using in this act?