Human Resources committee  Noront sponsors Mining Matters to go into communities with as few as 28 or 30 children. For us, it's about providing the idea that there are other options for the children. Most children don't see geologists, they don't see engineers. They don't experience what the industry has t

Human Resources committee  There are indicators to demonstrate success. I don't have those in front of me, but they have a certain response mechanism that demonstrates how many kids are actually informed. I think we can get that information for you.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  I would also say that it's not just the direct employment that's going to affect the aboriginal communities. It's the business that's going to be developed around that, that's going to be owned and operated by communities. They need to have that opportunity to train their own mem

Human Resources committee  If I may speak, from our company, we want to maximize. We think putting a ceiling on a percentage of what we want to hire in the way of an aboriginal workforce is doing the aboriginal workforce a disservice. We want to hire as many as possible. We have a small camp right now, but

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  I think with any kind of development, regardless of where it occurs, you're going to have social problems that accompany it. It's just the nature of the influx of new workers and money—having money when individuals never had that amount of money before. We've seen it time and tim

Human Resources committee  Thank you for that question. From having been intimately involved in the development of the project up to now, from the discovery in 2007, the issue is trying to determine who is ready to be employed, and from there, finding out which members are willing to be employed but don't

Human Resources committee  We think that's critical. We want to do it early and get as many ready as possible.

Human Resources committee  One of the things we are seeing in Ontario is that we have a consortium of colleges and training centres working together. Confederation College, Sault College, Northern College, and Cambrian College have come together to provide mining readiness training, whether it's diamond dr