Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Mine Training Committee is just getting up and

running. Agreement to the terms of reference for the Committee was not reached until the fall. Originally, I had sought advice from representatives of the mining industry and service industry to make sure that the training that we were providing was recognized as valuable by the industry, and that they would then hire the people who had that training. One of the first recommendations was that I should look to bring in some community representatives, and the Committee was expanded in the late summer/early fall by bringing in representatives from some communities across the north. Then the Committee suggested to me that they could probably achieve more if we had a coordinator who worked to provide a liaison between communities, mining companies and service companies and to also provide them with some staff assistance. That person, Mr. Dan O'Neill, came on staff just earlier this month. Mr. Speaker, I have advised the Committee that I expect next week to step down from the Chair and the Committee should take over running its own affairs and be prepared to provide me with advice. Until now, the advice has been more of a general nature, but I am expecting more detailed program advice from them in the next week or two. Thank you, Mr. Speaker