Certainly, Mr. Chair, these funds are application-based in the school. I want to ask, in terms of the application, when there’s these small communities that have activities that are in their region or in and around their communities, that certainly where there’s much needed skill to be learned there. Is this how this works in terms of the funding application?
I know that at one time the schools in a southern area were building housing units for some of the elderly people and these grade 10, 11, 12 students earned credits on the courses they had to take. Right now, what I’m finding out is that our schools in our region in the Sahtu are scrambling and finding it hard to get initial dollars to hire a qualified instructor to come in and teach these skills. We may have the facility but they need the dollars to have somebody on deck to work with the kids there.
Again, it’s good to have these facilities. It’s nice to have them up and running, but you need the bodies in there to make it happen there. I want to ask the Minister, in terms of the application basis, in terms of the smaller, isolated, remote communities, what chances do they have in terms of making sure that they are not left out of this process here.