Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With respect to accessing federal programs, as we discussed earlier, when we look at the revenue summary of the department, the federal government has done an across-the-board reduction in terms of the JEPP program across the country. There’s less money actually available from the feds. Public Safety Canada is operating a college that community staff or volunteers can access. The cost of the training, once you’re there, is free. The community will have to pay for the transportation and lodging, but the training component of that is free. That has been accessed by GNWT and community people in the past and we do continue to promote that.
We do also promote communities to try and take advantage of JEP, as limited as that might be. We do put forth any submissions we do get from the communities for the JEPP funding as well.
I guess I would leave it at that, but the amount of federal money that is available for this type of activity is limited. We try to take advantage of it when we can.