You touched on the issue of departments having funds in their budgets for training individuals. The problem I have with that is that we go through a process of interviewing people and then hiring people with high potential, especially from southern Canada, who have gone to universities. It seems like a lot of money is spent in the area of educating these people after we have hired them with, supposedly, experience to do these jobs. It seems like a lot of resources are spent on training individuals -- a lot of whom come from southern Canada to fill these positions with this government -- we're having to pay them a large wage and on top of that, train them. Sometimes it boggles my mind. Who are these training programs for? The managers or the individuals that work underneath them? I've heard from several of my constituents, who work within the bureaucracy of this government, who have a real concern about that; that they do not have the opportunity, as aboriginals, yet, a lot of these dollars are spent on training southern-hired individuals who acquire a job with the Government of the Northwest Territories because of their so called high qualifications earned at southern institutions. However, when they come to northern Canada, we have to educate them because of where we live and how these programs are delivered.
We should seriously look at how that program is being administered by those departments and figure out if we are getting the best bang for our buck when it comes to the Department of Education; and who is really benefiting from these programs. My view is that we should seriously look at where those dollars can be best spent and who exactly the long-term benefit is for: an individual or the Northwest Territories? A lot of these individuals may not live here for the rest of their lives. But for aboriginal people, where do we go? This is home. This is where we will probably live and die. That's something that has to be considered with regard to how you deliver these programs, especially in the management area.