Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as Mr. Dent is probably aware, through the initiative of a number of business owners and interested parties, educators, his own department in Hay River, through the Career Development Centre, have formed an organization and are working towards having a trades school in Hay River, something that has been long talked of and thought to be a good idea. To this point I don't believe there has been any requests for government funding, but I'd like to ask what would currently be available in terms of program funding or support, even capital for that matter. On a previous activity, we considered the money that had been allocated for the Kimberlite Training Centre here and I understand that was some industry and some government money, matched funds. We think that Hay River would be an obvious and likely choice for a trades school, given the amount of light industry, heavy industry, the number of apprentices that

are already trained in Hay River. But this would be something more comprehensive, it would reach out to a wide variety of people who may have potential to be employed in industry in the Northwest Territories, particularly with the pressure on the resource development companies. This is the concept that's at hand and being worked on, and I would like to be able to take back to that group information about the kind of support that this government could offer either through existing programs and funding or one-time funding, or just anything that might be available to aid in making this dream a reality. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.