Well, we have those training programs going on, and another program just came out last week with $6 million to $8 million for training, but as I said, we have to be careful. You don't try to take a person who has grade 8 and make him a grade 12 when he's 58 years old.
You're talking about older workers. Maybe we should look at a different program and say, okay, the industry is going down. We had programs called PATA before, and PATU. Then we said we'd give early retirement to those people, and then concentrate on another group on a voluntary basis, and then look at the others and ask how we can train them, and we have that program. But I still have so many people coming into my office saying they'd like to qualify to go in the programs, but they're still not qualified. They want to learn and they cannot qualify.
I think we should be more open. For example, we started by training people who had grade 8 and were able to collect employment insurance and paid some of the program. Then they switched them from grade 8 to grade 10. If you were on the grade 8 level, you could not get it anymore; you had to go and study at night.
Then there could be more money used to train people from the younger generations who didn't have the opportunity to go to school. That's what happened in the fishery. For the ones who know the history of the fishery, it was easy to get a job in there. You didn't need much qualification, and they thought they would have a job forever. Then they got into the fishery, and when the fishery closed down, they ended up with no education and no job. I think we should admit more people to that part of the training program.