David Krutko

Let’s go to page 10-28, income security, grants and contributions. Ms. Bisaro.

Does the committee agree that we’ve concluded the Department of Education, Culture and Employment?

Mrs. Groenewegen, a comment. Next I have Mr. Yakeleya and Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Yakeleya.

Mr. Lafferty.

Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to speak on the Aboriginal Court Challenges Program that’s in place in this government that we seem to hear very little about. Mr. Speaker, in light of the situation we find ourselves in here in the Northwest Territories in trying to define and challenge who has what rights, I think this fund has been put to use.

Mr. Speaker, the fund provides for an application to apply to receive funds to pay for legal expenses by way of individuals, non-government organizations, in regards to seeking application before the court in regards to the protection and...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have similar questions to Mr. Beaulieu. We seem to have the same challenges in our ridings, especially where we are seeing high pockets of unemployment in excess of 45 percent. Yet investment in regards to training and apprenticeship positions and allocations of those programs and where they seem to be expending a lot of those dollars are at the large regional centres where you look at where the people are being certified and whatnot. In most cases the larger centres, where you basically have people that are getting into the trades, people that work with different...

Deputy Minister Daniels.

Mr. Minister.

Mr. Daniels.