Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I can't enumerate the specific training programs that are on at each of the individual mines right now, but I know that there are a number at the mines. I must say that compared to what we had with mines about eight years ago, the growth of the number of people who are in apprenticeship programs in mining in the North right now has been quite dramatic.

When I first became Minister in the 13th Assembly I think between all the mines in the Northwest Territories, which was much bigger then than it is now, there was only one apprentice. We've gone way beyond that and I know that at one point we were approaching 28 apprentices between the two mines that are operating. I can't say whether that's still the case today, but I do believe that we are still seeing a good number of apprentices working at the northern mines. Thank you.