Mahsi, Madam Chair. I just want to touch up on under facilities management. In the small communities, I know the outlying communities, like in Fort Providence and Fort Resolution, they have settlement maintainers. I know it's costing the department quite a bit of money every time one of heating boilers or whatever goes down in either Fort Resolution or Fort Providence. The operating engineers have to come from Hay River, and we don't know if they will come all hours of the night most times. I had brought this up when I was an employee in Infrastructure, but it has not gotten anywhere.
However, I was really hoping this department would really look into providing training for those settlement maintainers at Aurora College because, every year, Aurora College, sometime in May, has a six-week oil heat technician training. It used to be OBM. They are open for anybody with an electrical ticket, but if not, there is specialized training that you could work in conjunction with the Housing Corporation. If you even went on a course for furnaces and boilers, the theory and the practical instruction that they get onsite opens their eyes as to what they are really dealing with. It certainly has for me.
I have worked as a housing maintainer for quite a number of years in my community. When you go get the theory and the training, you are sitting in front of a furnace for four weeks, and you are able to wire it at the end of the course. That is really something. When you learn about the boiler systems, the zone valves, and everything, it really opens your eyes to what you are really dealing with and what you can do in the communities. I don't want to drag this on any further, but I was really hoping that the department would consider helping those settlement maintainers in the communities. Let's get some training done. Mahsi.