Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I'll start, and then would -- I'm sure the Members would love to also get to hear somebody else talk at this table as well, and I'll pass to deputy minister Fulford who I know has wonderful things to say.

So to start, some of the things that we are doing have to do -- you know, for example, in this section, we have apprenticeship allocation certification. We also have our labour market programs. And unfortunately, while we did see that the federal government did not reinstate our labour market programs across the country, we saw a $625 million dip in that funding across the country. We were still able to hang on largely to what we were able to do in this section even without that because, as the Member said, this is an incredibly important section. So as one of the key things that we've done that I love to be able to talk about is really broaden the access points for access to entry into the trades. So it used to be that you had to graduate from high school, for example, with certain courses and have certain marks in them, and one of the things that we've done is open up another route which says if you have graduated from high school in the Northwest Territories, you can enter into an apprenticeship.

Some of the other pieces that we've done are really going out and trying to bring together, you know, the programs that we have within education, culture and employment and the residents that are trying to access them, so certainly working with our dev corps who are putting together their own training and workforce development tools as well, and then we also have our Skills 4 Success. And with that, Madam Chair, I would love to pass to the deputy minister who can speak in greater detail.