Natural Resources committee  No. I'm not sure if it's from the federal government. It probably went through the Nunavut government. We've got some work on our buildings in Baker Lake this summer.

Natural Resources committee  From the territorial government, we recently got airport improvements. But that's just a band-aid solution. We would like to see a jet landing there some day. We see a lot of resource development coming our way, and we want to be ready.

Natural Resources committee  A good training program is not a loss. If you train heavy equipment operators in work geared towards a mine, they can put that training to use for things like municipal services. So when training is pushed by a community, it has already planned the sort of training it wants.

Natural Resources committee  I can't help but stress that if Nunavut is to get independent, we need to really focus our energy on training our youth, not during the construction of a mine but before. We are impacted greatly by lack of training, a workforce that could have stepped right into doing work. Train

Natural Resources committee  I'll be honest. Nobody heard us. We went to our RIOs. We went to our territorial government. It just fell on deaf ears. Baker Lake had a very high rate of unemployment. We wanted to make sure we maximized our benefits by training our workforce, but it just fell on deaf ears. Now

Natural Resources committee  It may sound very simple, but it would be heavy equipment operators. In our community, municipal services are not being done very well because the municipal service workers who used to work are working at the mine. We thought that when they came home on their two weeks off, they

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  We want to run programs in our community. It has been our experience that when you train people in your community, the success rate is far higher than it is if somebody goes out of the community and lives somewhere else. They're home with their family and there is still the home

Natural Resources committee  I was just going to move to it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Natural Resources committee  Here are our recommendations to the government. At least 7% of our population is under 25. The workforce is rapidly changing, so we need to provide our youth with better education and much needed training opportunities. If Nunavut is to succeed as a territory and if our childre

Natural Resources committee  [Witness speaks in Inuktitut] Thank you very much. I would like to make a correction. A formal invitation was given to the mayor and the other members of the council of the Hamlet of Baker Lake to bring up matters to this committee relating to socio-economic impacts. The mayor