Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I believe that education has to be something that has to be done in partnership. I fundamentally believe that a government has a responsibility to produce trained people, or at least trainable people, but then the individuals themselves have to come halfway as well.

The worst thing that could happen to a person is to be forced to be educated for something they do not want. There has to be a massive buy-in. These people have to want to work in the oil and gas field and so on.

The Minister indicated there is some sort of plan, but I think it should be very specific and focused and narrow. You have to do a really good study. Mr. Chairman, I am also aware of the fact that the diamond mines, as well as some of the other businesses in town, are prepared to enter into a training arrangement with the government. I have heard the figures are upwards of $2 million to train people. These companies will do anything to have trained people so they can hire them. By and large, they want to hire Northerners, especially aboriginal people.

Can the Minister tell us if there is anything going on in the department to work with the industry in a close way? Not just consulting or meeting together, but having a very targeted and focused program with something as detailed as saying we are going to have this many people from these communities in these jobs by this time and they need these programs, and they have to go to school for six months and have a bullet-proof plan that also has buy-in from the people up and down the valley or around Yellowknife.

I think it is time. The opportunity is here and we really have to be focused on finding those people, who can be trained and who should be trained and target them and give them the focused resources we need so they are going to be ready when the pipeline comes in or when the second diamond mine comes in and De Beers comes in and on and on. This is a very important area, Mr. Chairman.