I have to agree with the Member that we need to prepare our people, career readiness he is referring to. There needs to be a strategy in place that he has referred to, and there is a committee that has been struck from 2009. It’s a five-year plan, a training plan for the Sahtu region. It’s called the Sahtu Region Training Partnership Committee.
We do have representatives from almost every organization in the Sahtu region, including Imperial Oil Resources, Akita Drilling. There are roughly 16 different partners involved in this discussion on training and the training needs in the region. The
Deline Land Corporation, the Deline First Nation, the Sahtu Dene Council, Colville and Norman Wells, the Norman Wells Development Corporation, business development, the college, the Sahtu Divisional Education Board, council, they’re involved as well. We have a very solid committee there and they are developing plans. We can probably provide that information once we get the documentation from them on what they’ve been working on.
The Members highlighted some of the individuals that are nearly ready to enter the workforce. With all of those, Deline and different organizations that I just referred to, they are the ones who will be providing those human resources. Our job is to train them through the college and through Imperial Oil, Akita Drilling and so forth. I believe we have strong representatives and they meet every six months. We can gather the latest information on that and we can share that with the Member. Mahsi, Mr. Chair.