I will be honest with you. At the moment, we have not been allocated any federal money. Funding stopped last March 31. But we still get a lot of requests for training: for trucking in Natashquan, for heavy equipment operation in Sept-Îles, and for carpentry in Forestville. The requests keep piling up but we keep waiting. The only money that we have received comes from the Quebec Secrétariat aux affaires autochtones. They gave us $500,000 for the Vocational Training Centre for Aboriginals in the Construction Industry payroll. In other words, for the development officers who are monitoring our current students.
We have a surveying course in Wendake, a heavy equipment course in Vaudreuil and a course in Roberval. So the money goes to pay for the development officers, for travel, for the employees at the centre itself and for everything related to the students' work expenses and support. We pay for the students' manuals, their uniforms, their work boots, their hard hats and their safety glasses. We equip the students at the start of their training. We just want them to take the training and get their diplomas. We want them to be able to get into the workforce.
We work with unions and employers. They tell us where the labour shortages are and we then train people in those areas so that they can get a job.