Human Resources committee  At the moment some of our students have left Quebec and they're working in other provinces as linesmen. We've had students who have left to go and work in Alberta and places like that because there were needs. But at the beginning of the program, it is a fact—they need the prereq

Human Resources committee  When the consortium was set up, various companies signed a memorandum of understanding, including the Quebec Ministère des Transports, Hydro-Québec and TransCanada. Those companies committed to hiring our students when they graduated. Let me give you an example. It was the first

Human Resources committee  Different things were done to help the graduating students get a job. I'll give you an example. Hydro-Québec gives credits to employers who are going to employ aboriginal students.

Human Resources committee  Let me try to answer that. Upgrading is very important before training starts, so that the student gets going and is set up for success. Let me give you an example. For the surveying course, we really have to ask the instructors to check the mathematical concepts required, the

Human Resources committee  At the moment we're waiting for the information from la Construction du Québec, because as soon as somebody has a diploma and is employed with La Commission de la Construction du Québec in different projects in Quebec, they can give us that information. At the moment, I cannot gi

Human Resources committee  Yes, I will.

Human Resources committee  I'll give you an example. At the moment, there is a big construction project called la Romaine, near Havre-Saint-Pierre. Different companies are involved in that project—Hydro-Québec, the different companies building le barrage and other things there—so they're asking us to trai

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  In the document that we gave you, the upgrade for ASP Construction, 305 trainings were completed. At CCGIC, 112 were completed, and there were 203 students for the DEPs, the diplôme d'études professionnelles—148, and 55 who are doing it at the moment for a total of 203. I would

Human Resources committee  First, the training is paid for by the Government of Quebec. The Ministère de l'Éducation pays for the students to be trained. When we work with various school boards around the province, we get involved by helping them with the operational costs, given that training is not offe

Human Resources committee  Yes, it does.

Human Resources committee  Exactly. We have given them in Maniwaki, for example, and in other places, and there are really not a lot of major costs. For a drilling and blasting course, we have had to send our clients off to various places. There were not a lot of operational costs for the linesman course e

Human Resources committee  I cannot give you an answer because this is the first time for the vocational training centre. Our success comes from the fact that our cohorts are made up of Aboriginal students only. With Aboriginal students scattered all across the province in various school boards, they begin

Human Resources committee  You can see in the document that the first cohort was in 2009. The training was held in Sept-Îles. It was a carpentry group.

Human Resources committee  They did. If you look at the documents I gave you, you can see that, in that group of 25 students, 20 completed the training and four did not because they had to take some modules again, or do make-up exams.