Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have not concluded any assessments of those projects that are being funded at this particular juncture. Just so the honourable Member is aware, we have not spent as much money as probably we would have liked to in as many communities as possible. What we are finding probably is that we still need to do a lot of work with our communities and advise them about the program and opportunities, and to make recommendations of some of the initiatives that might be considered.

I can say that in one particular case, in Hay River the response to the adult training component is excellent in terms of its results. In fact, Mr. Chairman, interestingly, they've sent me some letters thanking me for the initiative that I've undertaken and, in fact, students are recommending that we continue with the initiative.

I think where we are starting to see returns on investments is in the whole area of building and learning. I think there we see people who are actually in the trades area actually involved in government capital project and us, as a government, using those monies to train people in the trades helper area, I think we are seeing the results now. There are some situations where I can probably point to a community like Aklavik where we started out with a suggestion of about seven, and we ended up with 17 people in the project. Coppermine was successful. So we're now starting to see certification of individuals who are older in some cases, have less education but are either going to school or maintaining their interests in the trades.

I can't give a conclusive indication to the honourable Member on the investing in people; I think that's going to take us some time, particularly since we don't have as many of the communities as we would like to have involved in that. But it really focuses on things like skill development, life skills, adult basic education. Once we get people in those areas, I think you'll see them taking on other opportunities.