Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Department of Infrastructure fully understands the engineering and project delivery in the North, of challenges that we have around that, and one way we feel to be successful is we expose young engineers and technical students in their formative years to real life northern issues, and they get fully involved and be part of it.
We have arrangements with southern universities, a number of them. I could probably name them all, but there are four or five of them: University of Calgary, Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier, and the Royal Military, as the Member has stated today. Roughly about 150 students and their staff have come to the North and worked on engineering projects.
When they do come here, we expect them to spend about 200 hours of research and formulation of various viable solutions to the problems, and we expect them to work as a team and learn how to plan and organize their time, but we also expect them to gain a better understanding and knowledge of the North and the unique northern environment and challenges of engineering projects in the North.
I think this work is very valuable, not only to them, but to us as the Northwest Territories, and we will continue to support that, Mr. Speaker.