I certainly hope the Board of Governors would make some concrete move in terms of working with our high school in our communities to implement a trades program within their term as governors. I hope Aurora College can do that for the people in our communities.
I also want to say that I hope they look at putting a trades school into some of our communities. I know this mobile program, Trades on Wheels, as the
Minister talked about, but we need something more than mobile. We need something permanent, especially our communities that are against the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline route where there are some resources. That could be some of the industry that could be coming into our regions to extract some of the resources. We need some people out there that could have a career in some of those companies that are working in our region.
I want to ask the Minister in terms of the Teacher Education Program, is the Minister and his department encouraging teachers who are finishing the program, that this government is going to stand behind them to make sure they get jobs in the North in some of the small communities and they would be priority when they graduate from that program and we’ll have jobs for them in the communities?