Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There’s a number of things that have been done that I think we should continue to look at. As has been mentioned by some of my colleagues, education first and foremost is the best way to guarantee that you’re going to have a good chance at employment. At the community level where there are issues in terms of a lot of work is seasonal part time, we have to continue the support to the Harvesters Fund. We set up a program where we put workers in to help with employment. We put money to the small communities, to the Rural and Remote Communities committee that was set up. We have to look at continuing that. There are ways to look, I believe, for example, if I can use the example, in communities I have had discussions with my colleague from Tu Nedhe about if we brought all the maintenance money and O and M money that was there in the communities to look after all the infrastructure for the territorial government, schools, health centres, housing, and the housing program, and even the community, if we pooled that money together and we had a collective, coordinated way to deliver maintenance services in the community, that I believe with some support from education you’d have a critical mass to have apprentices in the communities along with tradesmen to maintain the very many, the tens of millions of dollars of infrastructure that we have in communities at all levels of community government. Those type of things I believe should be looked at. As well, we want to look at, of course, maximizing and continuing to be as supportive as possible to student employment.
Michael Miltenberger on Questions By Members
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