Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As the Member correctly points out, the importance of certification is very large. Most companies want to see people with certification if they are going to hire them. The PITS organization that the Minister referred to is actually an industry association organization, so industry certifies the courses.
What the college has done is that they have hired PITS on occasion to deliver courses in communities such as Inuvik. They are also looking to that organization to help train instructors so that we can have a permanent instructional work force in the North. I would say, Mr. Chairman, that the college is also looking to other organizations. They do have an affiliation with NAIT around some of their programming. So there is accreditation with other institutions.
Yes, the college is certainly concerned about the certification. They want to make sure the certification is accepted at other post-secondary institutions where appropriate and by industry. Thank you.