Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I just want to talk more about the trades certificate program in our region. There is a high interest from all leaders going and taking the initiatives to get our younger people into an education where there are programs out there that support people going into trades, upgrading their education skills, and taking the Apprenticeship Program. Even the Department of Education, Culture and Employment has a few programs with the Apprenticeship Program, offering industry and other private organizations in the construction business to take on these journeymen. However, Mr. Speaker, it seems that there is a gap between companies not really willing to take on the apprenticeship of a young person from a region, or they seem to have some difficulties in finding work. There seems to be some level of playing field that we are not on equal footing with, as with other people. We had some people from my region be deferred, as they call it, because there is not an uptake from Imperial or other oil and gas companies that outside of that came into the Sahtu and got a job just like that with the Apprenticeship Program. It seems that there is not an equal playing field for our tradespeople. There are a lot of people taking the Apprenticeship Program. However, there seems to be a gap in terms of how we get these people placed with these industries and organizations that make our successful program in terms of the leadership in education.
I am not too sure, Mr. Speaker, in terms of these impact benefit agreements, how strong they are, because we seem to be running up against labour laws that seem to override these IBA agreements, and these labour laws seem to put more weight into these workforces that they want to hit with the impact benefit agreements. I will ask the Minister what they are looking at in the future. Thank you.