What we did for assessment was go to communities in the Northwest Territories and do an information session on what their training would look like. From there, women applied. Once they applied, they would speak to the staff of that project team, and they also filled out an assessment...I don't want to call it a test, but it was done by a psychologist to determine whether they had the skills for trades-related work.
So they were assessed lightly, but there are some training programs across Canada that actually do three- to four-day assessments. In the Northwest Territories, we just do not have the capacity or the areas to send women to do that. Women Building Futures for youth in Edmonton has a tremendous assessment program, but they have a volume of people applying; they have hundreds of women wanting to get in, whereas in the Northwest Territories we are faced with very small populations and also populations of women who would have to leave their homes and move to the city. We were challenged by that.