This article from Daily commercial news provides more detail.

"The first remote training centre will be built in Neskantaga and Clarke hopes to have it up this fall. "

This is not gov't providing training money ...this is a very frugal run company which happens to be Canada's largest public construction and infrastructure development company.

Another hint.

http://dcnonl.com/article/id56397/--aecon-strikes-ring-of-fire-trades-training-partnership

August 1, 2013

KEITH WALKER/PEAK EXPERIENCE IMAGERY

Teri McKibbon, Aecon’s president and chief operating officer (left), and Kiikenomaga Kikenjigewen Employment & Training Services (KKETS) program manager Morris Wapoose, shake hands after announcing their strategic partnership for training and development programs.

Aecon strikes Ring of Fire trades training partnership

KELLY LAPOINTE

staff writer

A new partnership in the Ring of Fire area of Ontario will bring new opportunities for First Nations youth to stay in their communities while receiving trades training.

Aecon Group Inc. and Kiikenomaga Kikenjigewen Employment & Training Services (KKETS) , a Division of Matawa First Nations , have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which represents the beginning of a strategic partnership, starting with a joint commitment to provide local access to community-based education, trades and apprenticeship training for First Nations in northern and remote areas surrounding Ontario’s Ring of Fire mining development.

“It’s a special place in the community that they can go and get connected to the entire world of education,” said Bill Clarke, vice-president of business development for Aecon Infrastructure Group, who came up with the concept 15 months ago.

The remote training centres will be about 20 by 52 feet with 24-classroom seats, a kitchen, washroom, an office and a coat room and are designed to be flown in by an aircraft in pieces and assembled onsite.

Utilizing state of the art computerized technology systems and high-speed satellite broadband internet, the remote training centres will be able to connect to e-learning tools and programs.

The partnership will also provide an opportunity to work with International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793, which has a training centre for heavy equipment operators in Morrisburg, Ont., through e-learning training programs.

“They would have weeks of technical training and then the candidates that are successful with that, then they would go on to Morrisburg heavy equipment training school and run one or two pieces of equipment. Then they would be fully trained,” explained Clarke.

After the training is complete, the students would be apprentices who could work on projects close to their communities in resource development or mining.

Aecon currently employs two apprentices working on the Highway 17 project east of Thunder Bay, Ont. Clarke said there should be other apprenticeship opportunities as the area develops.

“Ultimately we would want them to work in the area and be able to have a good job and raise a family within their own community. That is what we call sustainable.”

KKETS is connected with other colleges and universities that could also develop e-learning for the remote training centres, said Clarke.

“Right now that (heavy equipment) is a good start and then they’ve got youth in the community that need to finish off their Grade 12 education,” he said.

The first remote training centre will be built in Neskantaga and Clarke hopes to have it up this fall.

Relationships have been strained between the Matawa First Nations, companies and governments looking to develop the Ring of Fire area. Issues surround environmental protection and monitoring, regional infrastructure planning and development, resource revenue sharing, and social and economic supports.

“I think the most important thing that any relationship is built on is trust and forming of partnership,” said Clarke.

“Looking at how we focus on helping the youth, the elders and the community members ... I think that’s a good start at giving back and looking at how we can actually make a difference there.”

Matawa First Nations represents Eabametoong First Nation, Neskantaga First Nation, Marten Falls First Nation, Nibinamik First Nation, Webequie First Nations, Constance Lake First Nation, Aroland First Nation, Long Lake # 58 First Nation and Ginoogaming First Nation.