Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, the honourable Member spoke about the unemployment rates in the communities he represents and the potential for oil and gas. There has been training taking place. I understand that many of the courses were on an initial basis. This budget includes another $500,000, Mr. Chairman, to address oil and gas training. Yes, perhaps it is not as much as we would like. It is an area that we continue to work on.
We are working, and we continue to work, with the federal government on the human resource development plan to see if we can access funding through that mechanism. That is essential for us, Mr. Chairman, to get substantial money.
Additionally, we are working on the maximizing employment. We are talking to the oil companies. We are suggesting that they too come up with potential suggestions. If there are suggestions from communities and other organizations, we would welcome them because we are interested in seeing what is possible.
With regard to the seniors' fuel subsidy program, as we know for the moment, we do have a program to do rebates to individuals and families on fuel. We are looking at some anomalies in the whole area of seniors' fuel subsidy.
The support for youth groups, our programs in the culture area are limited. As I stated earlier, we are doing a program to study an Arts Policy, and we are working on that with RWED and Heritage Canada to see if we cannot develop some area of improvement there.
The area of high school programs, our enrolments have increased. That is true. Perhaps we need to continue to look at programs. I do not know the specific answer to perhaps the enrolment and graduation rates of Fort Providence. We would have to take a look at that.
With regard to the Western Arctic Leadership Program in Fort Smith, it is a program we are studying at the moment to see, because other funders have pulled out of the project. We want to see if we cannot look at how to approach that.
On the harmonization of income support, we did brief the committee on it. I think we are looking for a report back on that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.