That's a very important question.
We have just embarked on a national process to improve Inuit education across the Canadian Arctic, and I'm the chair of the process. What we're going to do is look at how well we've done in education, where some of the failures have been, where the successes are. We want to build on our successes and identify the gaps. So we have embarked on a pan-Arctic process, and Makivik is very involved in that, and the Kativik school board in Nunavik and the Nunatsiavut government also. So it's all the regions, and it has been signed by Minister Strahl on behalf of the Government of Canada. And we are also urging the provinces that have Inuit living in them to participate, such as Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec. We had a representative from the Newfoundland government. They haven't signed the accord, but they were there and they participated, so that's important.
So we are embarking on this initiative because I think it's at the core of all the issues we face. Our young population numbers are very high, and if we can't get well-educated adults coming out of our school system, the jobs are always going to be taken up by those who move into the Arctic and then leave again because it's not their home. I think that in order to have sustainable communities, we have to educate. Our graduation rate right now for high school is 23%. So 61% don't finish high school. You know, when he was up in the Arctic this summer, the Prime Minister asked me a lot of questions about that, and he was really surprised to see that most of the people working out there where he went were non-native, were non-Inuit. He wanted to know why.