Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Having found an Aurora College calendar, I can now confirm that in the West we offer three management studies courses: management studies; the community administration certificate course; and, the first two years of a bachelor of administration program.
On the Member's question with regard to training, each department is responsible for ensuring that it lives up to this government's commitment to affirmative action. The Department of Education, Culture and Employment provides training for departments of this government, usually through Arctic College. We would certainly be willing, if departments are prepared to provide the seat purchase to ensure that the training is done through the colleges, as the Member suggests. The difficulty we have is that ... I shouldn't say the difficulty we have ... Let me rephrase that, Mr. Chairman. At the moment, the Member is referring to a $40 million training commitment made by the federal government for Nunavut. At this point in time, I don't know how that $40 million is going to be spent. All of it may be funnelled through the colleges or none of it may be. At this point in time, we are hoping that we will come to an agreement with the partners and that it will be funnelled through the college. We believe that is the way to have the greatest number of people trained.
We don't have a similar pot of money offered to the West, at this point in time. It becomes problematic for me to ... I can't commit, whether it's East or West, that the college is going to provide the training. We are hopeful in the East that we will be able to take advantage of those funds. In the West, at the present time, we don't even have an offer of similar funds so I don't even have anybody with whom to negotiate to try and get the money into the system for training. I recognize the Member's concern and I think that, given the funds, we will do the job do the best of our ability. The problem is one of getting a commitment for the funds. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.