There are best-practice programs showing how the mining industry has achieved their employment results. One of these is the multi-party training plan, which is a partnership program between government, industry, educational institutes, and first nations and Métis representatives. It's 50% industry-funded, and it's been going on since 1993, with $52 million invested. So that's one successful program.
Another successful program—on slide 12—has to do with the Northern Career Quest. I believe that was identified in some detail in an earlier presentation that Cameco was involved in. It's a highly successful program that achieved over 100% of its employment targets. It's an ASEP program that will be finished in June of this year.
The slides do go into additional detail, but perhaps you can address that in the questions.
The next slide looks at the key challenges; it's slide 19, which is quite a bit further down in your deck. This is about the partnership investments that government and industry should be looking at working on together in northern Saskatchewan and indeed in remote Canada. They are identified in the chamber report. These are investments in human infrastructure, skills, and training. There is also hard infrastructure—roads, power, development. And something that is very important is investment in regulatory infrastructure, which would improve the regulatory efficiencies that companies are investing in.
Slide 21 talks about the key positions required; it's a table. Working with the Mining Industry Human Resources Council in 2008, we prepared a study of the positions that were going to be required in the next 10 years. In the mining industry in Saskatchewan, we'll need 18,000 additional workers in that period. This study breaks down some of these broad occupations into finer ones, so that we know exactly what type of tradespeople will be required in what time period. We had good labour market intelligence on what our needs for training are going to be.
With respect to investing in remote hard infrastructure—slide 25—investments in power and roads are critical and are an excellent way to promote economic development. For example, the power in northern Saskatchewan right now is pretty much at capacity and a lack of growth will limit economic development opportunities. The mines lose revenue when there are power outages and that revenue is also lost to government.
Another example is roads. We would like to connect two mine facilities 52 kilometres apart, through a partnership with government. The cost for the road is $33 million and $14 million in annual operating expenses. The return on investment, though, would lead to 2,500 new jobs, with the deposits identified in those regions, $165 million in salaries, and $125 million annually in royalty and surface lease payments. You can see there's a substantial return on investment in building road infrastructure in the province.
Next is slide 26, looking at the business case for investing in efficient and competitive regulatory infrastructure.
Could you take this one for me, please?