Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have been working together with the department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development to develop the response to the arts strategy report vision for the arts, and we expect to be able to table that either tomorrow or the next day, Mr. Speaker. Hopefully tomorrow. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Certainly I think that's a good suggestion that we have our officials and the officials at the school and the DEA meet again together to discuss the issues that are before the school and see if we can eliminate some of the areas of problems, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member made some very good statements and I want to echo those, as well, that the school in Fort Resolution is a fantastic school. They have a tremendous staff and they're doing a good job. They had a graduation ceremony last Friday at which I had hoped to be able to attend, but I couldn't. I do compliment the staff there and the administration and the community support. You know, Mr. Speaker, that's one of the reasons for successful schools. When the staff jump in there like that and put their all into it.

With respect to a pilot project, at this stage of the game for me that would be a difficult thing to authorize, Mr. Speaker, because it would require additional funding. Mr. Speaker, I'm not sure what that would entail. I think I would have to approach it, as I said, more on the basis that the Member's correct. We know where the small communities are, but what are the conditions of the schools in those small communities and what are the needs. I think we need to do some work on that end, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Member looking at the possibility of a pilot project. I think I have to go back to my comments earlier that we do have to do some homework on this and to look at the smaller communities where there is difficulty being experienced in order to deliver the high school type of programs, specifically with respect to the funding process, Mr. Speaker. I think I'd have to say that we would have to do it on a more consistent basis and a more thought out basis than to immediately jump into a pilot program. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the Member bringing this forward. I know there's concern in small communities with regard to the funding process that we use. It is done on a per capita basis. There's some additional funding provided when grades are extended to grades 10, 11 and 12. That's all based on a formula, as the Member has said.

Mr. Speaker, in order to look at this particular question we have to be consistent across the Territories with all small schools and it is different than large high schools. I understand what the Member is saying and if you'll give me a moment, what I'm saying, Mr. Speaker, is that we need to identify the smaller communities and look at this process and see what kind of difficulties are arising for the small communities in this. From that base we could look at seeing what could be developed in regard to the funding process. It will mean a change in the funding formula that's provided for schools throughout the Territories, but I think the Member brings up a very good point. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I'd have to just go back into my memory to see what actions we did take. It seems to me we had checked about the aboriginal headstart program to see if we could obtain funding from the federal government to assist us in this particular process. That's from my initial memory here, Mr. Speaker, and we did go to Cabinet, of course, with regard to the school itself in terms of providing the financing for this. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all, Mr. Speaker, I do recognize that the aboriginal headstart program is made of students and they're extremely important. We have an early childhood development program with this government that addresses this whole area. To suggest that I don't classify them as students or am not interested in it is not correct, Mr. Speaker. I'm very concerned about early childhood development and the benefits that can offer.

Mr. Speaker, the fact is that this is an early childhood program, not a K to12 program and we provide funding for K to 12. Mr. Speaker, with regard to the request, I'd have to check to see what other programs have been operated under that basis where funding had been provided and then repaid, Mr. Speaker. I just am not familiar with that, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with regard to the question itself, I don't have the answer to that. I would have to check back to see and check with our department. But, Mr. Speaker, I should point out that we looked at the school and identified a need for a renovation and a small expansion. But at the request of the community... The community requested that this be expanded. It has to be remembered, Mr. Speaker, that within the school is an aboriginal headstart program, as well, and that particular program is a federally-funded program and normally the federal government provides capital funding for projects. We've not been able to obtain that money for this purpose, Mr. Speaker. So in a sense, we are meeting the needs of the school, but there's a program within the school that's really federally initiated and operated. We understand the need within the community, but that became part of the challenge here, Mr. Speaker. I think the community was very generous in its approach here to offer to provide funding for expansion. But it was beyond the scope of the original project, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all, I should state that any time we're dealing with a school facility, Mr. Speaker, we're very concerned to ensure that facilities are adequate and we can contribute to them. With respect to the Member's question, no, we didn't go to Cabinet for the $200,000, because we had a commitment, Mr. Speaker, from the band to provide the $200,000. Mr. Speaker, originally the Chief Sunrise School was identified as requiring upgrading, but then it was decided that KFN had provided additional funding so the scope of the work could be expanded, Mr. Speaker. From there, the scope of the work did expand and the band itself had stated they would contribute $200,000 to the project. Thank you.