Thank you, Mr. Rafferty.
I would like to talk about the example of De Beers' Victor Mine in Attawapiskat First Nation. As part of the IBA negotiations, there was a requirement to construct a training facility in the village of Attawapiskat, which they did. By the time it was built and there had been several intakes for the construction and skilled labour, the construction period was over, so those trainees were not able to benefit from the construction of the mine.
Then they switched over to training the processing plant workers at the mine site. Several intakes of processing workers were trained; they had to compete with other skilled and experienced processing workers from other mining developments in Canada, so the net effect was that it was too little, too late. The training facility should have been built earlier, as indicated here earlier. We need to get people ready for when the mine is constructed four or five years from now. We need to have facilities built now. I know that a couple of chiefs in the area indicated they would like to have such a facility.
Now there is a facility in Attawapiskat that remains closed. I was there a week ago, and there was no training going on at all. That could be used as one potential training site.