Thank you. I am aware of that. I just wanted to clear it up in Hansard for anyone who is looking at the budget document and trying to follow that conversation. My questions are about, I guess, corporate management. There was talk in the questions from the Member for Yellowknife North about training opportunities and what the department is doing in terms of addressing this deficit, I guess, of skilled workers, such as a journeyman, that we have. I know there was talk about the Minister said we are looking at breaking up contracts, so that smaller organizations can perhaps get in on them. Talking about training locals when there are projects, but there doesn't seem to be anything concrete here. I know that Education has Skills 4 Success, and it is hard to really tell from those documents what exactly is happening on the ground. From the Minister's answers, it sounds like things are sort of happening ad hoc, but there doesn't seem to be a real training plan.
One of the things that is really holding the territory back is the lack of journeymen. It is the lack of skilled labourers. You know, we can build a road to the mines and we can open up new mines. The same people who aren't working today won't be working at that new mine, and that is really the problem. That is where the resources go. It is the people who, you know, need to live in housing or earn income assistance because they don't have those skills to take those jobs. I will always remember the Premier said in one of his first speeches: there are more than enough jobs in the Northwest Territories for everyone. The problem is that the people from the territories often aren't filling those.
I have to disagree a bit with my colleague from Yellowknife North, who said that this is a bit outside the department, training. I think the department should be very heavily involved with training. I think that we need to start breaking down some of these walls between education, between housing, between infrastructure, and come up with an actual plan to move this territory ahead in terms of training. Otherwise, we are just going to be spinning our wheels for years to come.
What does the department have in terms of a comprehensive, written plan that they can show the committee, so that they can prove that they are taking this seriously? Thank you, Mr. Chair.