Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I had the invited opportunity yesterday to participate in the 2017 Suicide Prevention Through Positive Life Skills and Inspiration Sahtu Youth Conference held in Norman Wells. It was a very good turnout, leadership support, parental support. I was very inspired on the initiation of this conference there yesterday upon my presentation, and I'm looking forward to more of these gatherings to our youth community.
Mr. Speaker, the Sahtu Renewable Resource Council are hosting the Dene Ts'ili On-the-Land School to earn your PAL, which is a firearms possession and acquisition licence. The program details, Mr. Speaker, it's going to be held out on the land mid-way between Great Bear Lake and the Mackenzie River at a place called Bennett Field and hosted by Benny and his wife Tisha Doctor. The program details are going to be directed towards the youth of 18-30 on a regional basis and it will include storytelling, setting traps, setting nets, arts and crafts, and hunter education.
Lastly, Mr. Speaker, but not least, we have approximately 10 trainees from Tulita attending the Pre-Trades Training project, a joint collaboration between the Tulita Land Corporation, NAIT, and the Sahtu ECE Service Centre in Norman Wells. The purpose of this project is to provide pre-trades training to the community members to make them more employable, enhance their skills; and, as we know, there is a shortage of qualified tradespeople in Tulita and the Sahtu Region as identified and initiated in the Skills 4 Success Strategy Plan by this government.
In cooperation with these three identified courses, I would like to -- and I'll have appropriate questions for the Minister later on a collaboration work plan developed by an action plan between this government and the BGG or the Deline Got'ine government. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.