Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at one point, Public Works and Services was the largest, within government, producer of tradespeople through the Apprenticeship Program. For many years, the government, past governments, have taken a different direction and the staffing levels within the trades side of our department was privatized and that initiative wasn't used as much. What we have done within the Government of the Northwest Territories, though, recently was to look at the Apprenticeship Program, the involvement that we have. Each department already has, through a number of programs, apprentices in place through the Housing Corporation, as well as the Department of Transportation and Education, Culture and Employment, which holds the Apprenticeship Program right now. We were directed through new initiatives to look at the Apprenticeship Program, so the Department of Public Works and Services, the Housing Corporation, Transportation, Education, Culture and Employment and Municipal and Community Affairs did a review of our levels of apprentices and looked at what we could try to do. That's one of the areas. Unfortunately, right now, it would be categorized as a new initiative besides existing programs within Education, Culture and Employment and existing departments' staffing levels that we have apprentices in. However, right now we are looking at it on a government-wide basis to see where we can try to improve in that area of apprenticeships. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 121-15(5): Apprenticeship Programs Under The Department Of Public Works And Services
In the Legislative Assembly on October 18th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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