Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to be clear that I don't think...I'm not asking for our resources to be necessarily put toward attracting more immigrants. Although, being an immigrant myself, I think that they're Yellowknife and NWT's best kept secret and more in Canada should come here and find their opportunities. But I'm just talking about the ones that are here already. I knew of a case where a student who's here because her father works for one of the companies in the diamond industry, and in the southern jurisdictions immigration, well, student visa or temporary visa for people like her have been adapted for those students to work while they're studying here because they are foreign residents still and her dad is here to work for a temporary time. All she needed was a change in policy, I think, in Aurora College to make it possible for her to take one of their jobs on campus, because I think that's the limited opportunities that allow her to work.
Second thing is, there are a lot of people already here. We don't have to concentrate on attracting more people from other parts. That's the federal government's jurisdiction. But there are a lot of immigrants here in Yellowknife already who have education and who all qualify to do a lot of jobs that are available to us and they can't get their credentials. Just a lot of things that you need as a first-time immigrant to get into your society and become productive citizens and be able to offer everything that they have to offer. So I think this is more than just one labour situation issue. It involves students, professionals, there may be nurses and doctors and engineers who we desperately need in Yellowknife who could take on those jobs if they could only get through some of the red tape.
So I would like to encourage the Minister to look at the possibility of either taking on those services, also get involved with the federal government to push that agenda along, and I'd be happy to hear from him on any of the findings or results that he could report to us. I know our social programs agenda is really getting filled up with all the commitments he's made already, but I think I'll add that on the list of it. Thank you.