Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I fully understand, especially with some trades and especially with the more advanced years of trades training you do need fairly sophisticated equipment, like welding equipment, like electrical. But in almost all of our communities, certainly our larger communities, we have excellent shops in place in fields like carpentry, mechanical, automotive. We have excellent basic facilities. It seems to me that, even without establishing sophisticated equipment, if the will was there that we could offer at least trades training in the initial years in communities closer to home for those Nunavut students. I would submit that experience with the teacher education program and other programs that have been repatriated closer to home is that your success rates would only improve.

I would like to ask the Minister, what plans are in this budget that is before us to allow trades training to take place in Nunavut, especially in the early years without sophisticated equipment being required, using resources that are already in hand in our communities: housing association warehouses and shops, those sorts of creative approaches that have been the way the college at Smith developed. Thank you.