Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thank you to the deputy minister and the Minister for that. I think that one of the interesting -- and sorry. I'm not going to use the word "interesting". I think a very powerful tool for Northerners would be to know how much money is staying in the North and how much of the work is staying in the North as well. I think that's a really important part of it, is how many Northerners are employed and are generating dollars from all of this money that's coming out of the capital plan.
I think if you want Northerners to be able to support this and get behind it, that they want to know that they're benefitting from it in one more ways than one. And by more ways than one, I mean we all benefit from a highway, but are those, you know, as they call them the sticky dollars. Are they staying in the North.
And so before I lose my time, I want to move on to apprentices, and, I guess, can the Minister talk to me about are requirement for apprentices worked into their contracts when they do the contracts for these large projects. Thank you.