Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The level of graduation rates in communities has a direct impact on the capabilities of people in those communities to do the job of governance and to deliver programs and services on behalf of this government.
I asked several questions relating to public service training dollars to the Minister and the possibility of those dollars being made available to those employees who are working for the bands, for the municipal governments, for the Metis councils, delivering programs and services on behalf of the government.
The Minister has indicated that there is on-the-job training, job shadowing, apprenticeship, et cetera. The one flaw in those kinds of programs is if there is nobody trained or able to do the job to begin with, how can you justify placing an individual to train under so that they can master that job?
The challenge here is to train or further educate those individuals working for the municipalities today. Can the Minister acknowledge that there is a challenge in that area? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.