Well, in all the northern territories, INAC funds mine training associations. The training associations are independent, but they apply for the INAC funds. Certainly I know in my own business I'd applied for some of those funds through the training association. It's been very successful in getting first nation youth employed and training them. There is a cost when a company employs somebody without skills or background. In particular, many of the first nations that we hire may not even have high school and it has significantly offset the cost to train them. It's been very successful. That's certainly a program I think should be continued and even expanded, because it has been working very well. And now that the mine training associations are set up to administer the funds and they're local, one in the Northwest Territories as well here in the Yukon, it's helped our industry considerably.
On October 25th, 2011. See this statement in context.