Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I have better statistics for Nunavut, right off the top of my head, than I do for the West. For instance, as far as we know, there is not a single Inuit person who has postsecondary education who is unemployed at this point in time. There are almost none who have completed high school who are unemployed. The problem tends to be at the lower levels.

In the East, there is a significant opportunity for growth in the numbers of people who could be employed in the Nunavut government as it is set up. As things stand right now, we don't have enough people trained to take all those positions, so rather than bringing in people from the South, our goal should be to train as many people as possible to make sure that northerners can take the jobs.

In the West, I believe we have a significant opportunity coming up in terms of the non-renewable resource sector. I think there will be hundreds of jobs available in mining in the West in the next few years and, as things stand right now, we don't have enough people in the North trained to take all of those jobs.

So there are opportunities, and I believe that if we get to work and train people that we can help our residents take advantage of those opportunities. I think that there are other opportunities in the course of the next few years my honourable colleague responsible for Economic Development and Tourism will be presenting to northerners. I want to make sure that we have as many northerners as possible prepared to take advantage of those opportunities.