Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A couple of areas under the advanced education and careers section. Before I get into the specific question, it is good to hear the department, on a number of occasions now, talk about Inuvik, the regional training committee that is set up.
I must say I am impressed with their work as well. However, I must also say that it was under initiative from the community members who decided to get together and look at what they can do, in recognition that there was going to be a lot of pressure put on the different departments, government agencies, NGOs, to come up with some solutions to the training and coordination services. They have done a fairly good job and hopefully we can expand on that as a government.
The areas that I have questions about, Mr. Chairman, as we have heard a couple of areas have to do with the SNAP program or the apprenticeship program that has been talked about and how we want to expand and encourage that sector. Yesterday, I raised in my general comments issues around that when it comes to existing programming. Just for more detail in that area today, if the Minister can state what they actually will be doing in schools to improve on this program or the streams that are set up that students will go into that at the end of?
For example, I raised the specific stream of 16, 26 and 36 courses for senior high students. That in fact they would not, even upon successful completion of that courseload, be eligible to challenge the pre-trades exam. That does not say very much for our system.
Hopefully there are some changes going on in the system that happen, not the fact that you can still take this and, at the end of it, you have to take the 33 socials courseload to write and challenge that exam to get your diploma.
I think we need to go right to the core of it, not just to band-aid it. Hopefully, maybe the Minister can give some details as to what will be done and what it is, in the area of the Students North Apprenticeship Program, that will improve and we will see more students going into that area. Thank you.