Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Absolutely. Our government can, and will, accommodate any training where and when we can, especially up in the Sahtu. If the projects are significant enough, like the Bear River project was, and the Blackwater, you could make a case that it is significant enough to look at some type of training that could be accommodated with it. If the money is there, we would love to accommodate that and include that as part of the package because it's capacity building, and developing our youth and our skills in the communities and regions is a priority and is always a good thing, Mr. Chairman.

But some of the smaller ones, like you are talking about great improvements and that kind of stuff, we don't foresee how it would work to ask a small contractor to take on a huge training component. It's just not doable. Perhaps it's something that the Member and the companies are going to joint venture in the Member's riding can look at and accommodate through their own negotiations. For our department, if it's significant enough, we would certainly work with anybody we can to include training as part of the package.

The Member brings up about his need to have a regional office for the Department of Transportation there. I have to applaud the Member for being consistent on that matter. When you look at the business case for our department, it just doesn't fit in our plan currently, but we continue to monitor and as the roads develop and as the workload increases in his riding, then we will certainly consider staffing it with a full-time position there. Mr. Chairman.