Thank you.
I'd like to add to what Mr. Kaludjak has said, that if you ask what we have in place, there are a couple of highlights worth mentioning. One is that the Government of Nunavut is opening a trade school soon—I think it's next year, not this year. It's being built right now. So that's exciting. We have a cultural school that's opening as well.
One of the other things I'd like to touch on is what Mr. Kaludjak just mentioned in terms of upgrading. We have the Nunavut Sivuniksavut training program here in Ottawa, which is open for beneficiaries. There are usually about 22 students who come down from Nunavut. It's kind of equivalent to CEGEP in Quebec, where it's the stepping stone to a higher education. The rate of employment after going through the NS program is quite high, something like 97%. A lot of them actually end up going back to school.
Judge Berger had mentioned NS as an important component in training, educating, and preparing our youth for jobs in Nunavut as well. That $20 million that was mentioned includes funding and upgrading for the NS program.
There are two other things I'd like to touch on. One is the idea of the Arctic university. I'm sure you heard about it from the Governor General not too long ago. We're looking at initiatives like that in ensuring that education, even after grade 12, can remain in the territory. Right now, as you know, they have to leave for post-secondary education, other than Arctic College.
There is one thing that needs to be mentioned. It's that capacity-building needs to happen in Ottawa as well. There's a lot that isn't known about Nunavut; there's a lot that isn't known about Inuit and the land claims agreement. So as much as we would like to highlight the fact that training capacity needs to happen in Nunavut for our own Inuit, it also needs to happen where the decisions are being made and policies are being created, a lot of times without consultation or proper consultation with Inuit.
Thank you.