I realize that part of the review process was based on certain criteria, whether it be evaluating and so forth. This CanNor funding up to $9 million, I believe, over the two years to expand the programming in our territory and increase employment opportunities for the North. Of course, I’m happy that we received funding, as well, and any new funding that’s available to us, even though we’ve done our comprehensive review of our adult basic learning education. But at the same time, we have to keep in mind that there are a lot of opportunities out there where we need to utilize and expand our campuses. When I say campuses, that means learning centres throughout the Northwest Territories. The Sahtu, and now Deh Cho and Beaufort-Delta are coming on stream as well. We have to prepare these individuals, which we may not have had in the past except for the three diamond mines, and we’ve seen the results of that. We’ve seen so many people that went through the ALBE program, whether it be heavy equipment operators, apprentices and so forth.
We’ve seen some success, so this is an area that we want to capture as part of that up to $9 million that’s been handed over to the college. We want to be involved along the way. We realize that we’ve done our own homework and so that’s an area that we will continue to work, of course, with the federal government and with the college itself.
There is an accountability framework for training of adults, the Auditor General’s recommendation. We take this very seriously. That’s nearing completion and will be ready for discussion with our educational partners. As you know, we have to
work with the school boards and the college and so forth. We’re hoping that it will be ready for implementation in 2013-2014. Obviously, there will be some integration with the CanNor, with the college, but we need to work it out with them. We need to work side by side. That’s the information that I currently have right now.