The reason why NCC Investment group should receive this award is because we aim to be the leader in Arctic development solutions in real estate, construction, and investments that generate pride, economic returns, employment and partnerships for Nunavummiut. As an Inuit wholly owned, Nunavut-based company, NCC remains committed to employing as many Inuit and Nunavummiut as are available. However, in order to ensure there are enough skilled trades people on the NCC workforce to deliver on its promises to the Nunavut 3000 initiative plus its other commitments to building key infrastructure in Nunavut, NCC has launched a significant recruitment campaign and a training program that meets the needs of training people at home in their communities. The company has committed to building people and homes through a dedicated training program for Inuit that help them build skills so they can become skilled trades people. Before each building peoject starts in the community there is a 9 week in class training for 10 participants. Then those same 10 go through saftey training and finally a hands on project. This allows for 14 weeks of continuous training before they start ion the job training on the specific housing builds in their community. Currently our workforce is 200 employees on various projects across the north and we have over 50% of the workforce local to the territory and 42% of those 200 are Inuit. We also have numerous new Canadians also working for us in different roles administratively.