Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I guess I'm used to protocol where the chairman acknowledges when I'm ready to speak, or when somebody is ready to speak, so my apologies.
In terms of the Berger report, as I said before, we were extremely proud of the findings, which reaffirmed the arguments we were making with the federal government in terms of lack of training in Nunavut. It very much addressed the need to improve the educational system in Nunavut, and that's something we've been saying all along.
I believe about four years ago we submitted to the Nunavut government that we needed to see an overhaul of the educational system in Nunavut. Again, Berger reaffirmed that argument that we had. Still, we very much support bilingual education in Nunavut and we demand that Inuktitut be at the forefront, the first language you learn, and that it be the priority of this government.
We have moved towards that. The current government has adopted a language policy and language initiative that we have now to make sure that when people enter Nunavut they understand that the first working language in Nunavut will be Inuktitut. We work together as a team to make sure we achieve that, and I think we're there now.
Also, the cost of education, the $20 million, is minuscule. It's far short. It's lots of money, but for the Nunavut region it will still not reach the need to fully accommodate the language initiative that we want to undertake. I know we're going to have to keep arguing our case and justify the need for appropriate resources for that. That will continue.