Thank you, Madam Chair. To be sure, I was told recently that if you put together all the employees that are at work on diamond row in the sorting shops and the cutting and polishing shops, we probably have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 300 people in Yellowknife, including the families and everyone else who has indirect employment. So there's no doubt, in my mind, that we have the foundation for a successful and a sustained industry.
One of the expectations I think that we all had when these shops were getting set up, was that we would be able to attract and grow a northern workforce that northerners would be well suited to this job, given that they had the right training and the opportunity to go for it. So of the people who have gone through the training courses and are now employed in those shops, does the Minister have any idea how many of them are indeed northerners, and are the expectations that I might have had that we truly will have a resident workforce, are they viable? Thank you.