Mr. Speaker, the Northern Scientific Training Program, NSTP, has helped students study in Canada's north for more than 30 years. Each year the NSTP supports hundreds of students in valuable research projects and learning and living projects.
However, the NSTP has been cut back to a shadow of its former self. Today, when research in the north is more important than ever before and when the importance of young Canadians gaining life experience in remote parts of Canada is especially important, the NSTP is at its lowest level in decades.
I urge the government and the minister to restore funding to this unique and important national program. Let us help our young people help Canada's north.