Training is absolutely critical. Perhaps one of the shortfalls of industry is that we don't take training seriously enough or don't consider it soon enough in the equation. If you're looking at the timeline for Noront to be in production by 2016, which isn't all that dissimilar from what the Cliffs project has proposed, it gives us a good four to five years to establish training programs.
The first focus would be on tradespeople such as electricians, carpenters, plumbers. Then we'd start looking at training some skilled underground labour, because we're going to be an underground mine, not an open-pit mine. That would mean training miners in the mining process and in operating heavy equipment. At the same time, we're encouraging all the communities to stay in school, get their grade 12 education, and look at post-secondary education. Noront has actually established a post-secondary bursary program to encourage kids from the communities to go on to university and start studying things such as geology and engineering and environmental sciences.
We've sponsored Mining Matters camps in the communities of Marten Falls and Webequie, where we've taught very young children what mining and mineral exploration are all about and what kinds of opportunities and careers will be there for the future.
That process has to start immediately, essentially.