Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On page 10-23, apprenticeship and occupations, I just want to ask the Minister if there’s an expansion in the program. There is a couple hundred thousand dollars added to from the revised amount. There’s a real need in the small communities for apprenticeships. My feeling is that all tradesmen in small communities should be given an apprentice to create all kinds of economic possibilities in small communities, whether it be Public Works, NWT Housing Corporation through the housing authorities and whatnot. I know in my communities we have tradesmen that don’t have apprentices right now, and we have tradesmen that do have apprentices, but I think that there’s a great amount of economic spinoff for small communities and so on when there are tradesmen working in the community, especially when it’s very difficult in small communities to get any work done on your own housing unit and so on. And the whole philosophy of the Housing Corporation, once you become a homeowner, that you should, if you can afford it and if you have the income, be able to maintain your own unit, or at this point, even if individuals in communities had the money to maintain their units, especially in fly-in communities or communities that are serviced by barge, for the most part, like Lutselk’e. Even in Fort Resolution, you have to go to Hay River to get a journeyman to come in and service your furnace if there’s no one available in the community, or carpentry work and things like that. I guess I just wanted to know if there’s an expansion in the program that we’ll be seeing more apprentices in the small communities.
Tom Beaulieu on Committee Motion 24-16(4): Development And Introduction Of An Aurora College Diploma Program For Sustainable Community Administration And Renewable Energy Technology, Carried
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Committee Motion 24-16(4): Development And Introduction Of An Aurora College Diploma Program For Sustainable Community Administration And Renewable Energy Technology, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 9th, 2010
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