Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is a committee functioning under the leadership of Arctic College in Fort Smith with expertise from different areas related to the Justice system. What the committee is still trying to establish is what are the actual training needs. There are some different possibilities. Is the program aimed at training people who would later go on to become lawyers? Is it aimed at training people for fairly specialized positions as court clerks or something which is limited in number? Is it aimed at training people to be court workers? If so, they will also need specialized on-the-job training. Is it a general kind of training that could prepare people for a variety of roles in the Justice system? As far as I know, that working group for the western Arctic is still continuing on, looking at those different possibilities.

There has also been discussion of where community development fits into that, whether that is a separate course or where that all fits together. They are also looking at the work that has been done in Nunavut for similar kinds of training there.