Luker, You missed my point in that this program is a partnership. This means someone else is funding more money to the program. Just who are the "other" partners and how much are they contributing to this one year diploma education. As you pointed out the average cost for a HD Equipment Operator course is about $9000. I am sure that there are a lot of young "southern" boys that would love to be able to partake in this NO COST education so pass on the good news to all the unemployed young people along the shores of lakes Erie and Ontario to run to Sudbury or the lakehead and sign up for free. This would even make it easier, if like you suspect, it will be tough going to sign up 1000 of the 2400 available spaces. What should happen is that these 2400 free courses that are offered to healthy young unemployed native and non native men (or women) who inhabit the Ring region, if declined, is to cut them off all benefits. Oh, excuse my blundering shortcomings, I forgot we have our wonderful charter of rights an freedoms. The freedom is in the form of us being able to freely pay out taxes with no input return to society. What was I thinking. the deputy