Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have similar questions to Mr. Beaulieu. We seem to have the same challenges in our ridings, especially where we are seeing high pockets of unemployment in excess of 45 percent. Yet

investment in regards to training and apprenticeship positions and allocations of those programs and where they seem to be expending a lot of those dollars are at the large regional centres where you look at where the people are being certified and whatnot. In most cases the larger centres, where you basically have people that are getting into the trades, people that work with different employers and whatnot and also large projects by way of capital infrastructure are in the larger centres, but yet, Mr. Chairman, I think that we also have to re-profile the dollar expenditures on where there is highest need, such as the high needs by way of unemployment statistics.

I think that something that sort of shocked me is that government employees, regardless if they are P1, P2 or P3, are paid less than the different levels from, say, $60,000 for a P1 to basically $85,000 for a P2. A $20,000 difference simply because the class that you have been hired under and the reason for that is probably because of the education levels are different from a P1 individual that is, say, somebody that is basically P2 or P3.

Again, I think it is important that we have to ensure that we invest these advanced education dollars to ensure that we have capacity in our communities. I think, also, that you have to reflect on the employment, full-time job opportunities and the in-migration and out-migration, and in-migration by way of this different staffing you are talking teachers, you are talking settlement administrative officer are basically trained professions where we still have a high dependence of importing a lot of that workforce.

Again, we have to invest in the communities to ensure that we have the capacity to take on those positions. More importantly, offer the residents in our communities those opportunities and take advantage of those opportunities by ensuring that we are investing in career and employment development and investing those dollars correctly in regards to the $45 million.

I would just like to ask the Minister exactly what are we doing to basically re-profile these dollars on where we see high unemployment levels and where we basically can invest those dollars to ensure people are getting the adequate training and support they need to take advantage of the northern economy and job opportunities in the Northwest Territories.