Human Resources committee  At this point, I think we're in pretty good shape. I've done accountability for many years in many different programs, so I would say yes.

Human Resources committee  Our accountability is straight across the board, from financial accountability.... My personal philosophy is that at the end of the day, I'm a taxpayer, so if that expense is not something I would be comfortable with, then it's not happening. I do that with any kind of funding we

Human Resources committee  Yes. We do go into the high schools when we get the opportunity. As I said earlier, the cost of travelling is humongous in Iqaluit and in Nunavut as a whole, so we can't go to every school in every community. That's not practical. However, we do go to the regional centres, and th

Human Resources committee  No, absolutely not.

Human Resources committee  Absolutely, yes. That's something we've developed. It's really our screening process for our next level of courses. We are finding that without it.... Students would come to Iqaluit for training, but we just didn't know what kind of training they were getting, because they were m

Human Resources committee  It's very difficult, yes.

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure I understand the question. What we have is a pre-training program. That's a two-week program that basically introduces a student to what the fishing industry is all about. We talk about all sorts of things, including lifestyle, etc. We look at their numeracy skills

Human Resources committee  Yes, and it took a few years to get the NFMTC on the ground. Part of that was the guys weren't used to going fishing. They would go fishing traditionally for their day fishing, but not away from home for six or eight weeks at a time.

Human Resources committee  That has really changed.

Human Resources committee  It is.

Human Resources committee  I've secured funding for next year. Not all of it is coming from the Government of Canada. In fact, that's a very small part. I've been able to develop a relationship with the Government of Nunavut, and under their labour market strategy they'll be our main funder for this coming

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. We're up to an overall allocation of 75% now in the waters adjacent to Nunavut, which is part of the land claim agreement as well. The capacity is there now. We have about six or seven vessels that are either Nunavut owned completely, or owned partially as a majority

Human Resources committee  From my perspective, under the SPF program that we are currently funded by, which will end at the end of March, by the way, we have a very flexible arrangement. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that we've progressed from an ASEP program and we know what works. The po

Human Resources committee  I would say our age group is between 22 and 40. For anyone older than that it's pretty tough to break into the fishing industry. You have to work hard. It's not an easy industry to be in. We currently have no age limits attached to our funding. It's not youth funding; it's just