Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There is such a shortage of skilled tradespeople that everybody is struggling to keep them. Between the oil industry in Alberta and diamond mines here in the Northwest Territories, it's very difficult for even the government to hang onto skilled tradespeople. They can make better money outside of government than they can even working for government. So it's a challenge for everybody to keep tradespeople. One of the solutions, obviously, is to train more.
As we went through the budget earlier in the Department of Transportation, this Assembly talked about, and the Minister brought forward, a proposal to put money in his budget to bring some tradespeople on stream and to start to train more tradespeople. Our government needs to get more involved in training tradespeople. That is one of the areas we are hoping to expand into over the next few years. The Department of Transportation was first off the mark with some funding in this budget. We are hoping to be able to see more over the course of the next year.
Switching hats from Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, I can tell you that private employers are eligible for wage subsidies that they have in training programs for apprenticeship programs. So that support is there. In terms of when the LHOs might see some support, that would be when the Housing Corporation is able to flow some money for supporting tradespeople. I hope that we will see that in the not-too-distant future. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.