Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I had mentioned earlier to Mr. Delorey that Yellowknife Catholic Schools had a good example that I discussed with the chairs of other boards, for a facility that they had managed to find partnerships to develop it. I don't think anybody is denying the importance of trades training for young people in the North, particularly given our opportunities in the resource development field over the next several years. So I would dearly love to be able to say that we had some money in the budget to improve what we have for trades training.
I guess I also need to say that the budget you have before you, I've already mentioned, and I realize, Mr. Chairman, we're on the wrong page because actually what we're talking about is on page 9-17. The budget you have before you, the contributions to schools, doesn't include all the money given. I'm going to have to come back for a supp for $2.8 million on top of this just to have enough money to maintain the contributions that the schools in the Northwest Territories are getting right now. That's without adding any extra programming. So what you're seeing in this budget now is not the final dollar. We didn't have the final count for enrolment until just recently, so we couldn't demonstrate the need for the increased funds. We now have the final count for enrolment as of this year. So based on the actual enrolments, we're going to have to come back to this Legislative Assembly for a supplementary appropriation in the range of close to $3 million just to maintain what we're doing already.
So it is an important area, we need to find some way to do it, we are examining what makes the most sense in terms of programming for schools and how we should do things when it comes to funding the school districts, the divisional education councils. But as it stands right now, we haven't got any extra money to put into that kind of program.