Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Right now within the Government of the Northwest Territories, the existing program we have, through the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, wage subsidies and so on for a private sector, as well as departments, to help fund if they are going to go into the area of hiring more apprentices. Within the Department of Public Works and Services, as I stated earlier, we have struggled in that
area. At one time, we provided all of the maintenance, O and M in communities. Since then with hamlets and community governments taking on more and more of that responsibility, Public Works and Services has stepped out of there. Some of our staff have gone on and been hired by communities and what we would have in a number of our communities now, for example, would be some of our Public Works and Services staff who would be there to overlook maintenance and contracts and things in communities to ensure that our schools and health centres are functioning properly.
We have looked at getting back into that area. Unfortunately, it would require more funds to step up to that program level that we feel is necessary and we don't have that at this time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.