Thanks very much.
Your point is absolutely correct. There is a very large workforce available. It is, as a whole, increasingly better educated. There have been continual improvements in the area of education outcomes regardless of some limitations on spending.
The question you specifically asked has to do with the importance of the role modelling, the mentorship, and generally, one might say, the leadership this shows to others. What you have in terms of many of our communities is a lack of hope, a lack of direction, because of the undercutting of a way of life, and the fact that it has not yet found roots in pursuing a new way of life. What needs to happen for many of those communities is for new ways of life to be modelled to the young.
I can think of another Nova Scotian community, in Membertou, on Cape Breton, where in 1993 or perhaps 1994 they were about $1 million in debt. They were under third-party management because the debt exceeded 8%, which is the rule. They turned that around so that community is now producing a GNP of about $60 million a year. They did that through the leadership of the chief, through the leadership of certain members of their business community who were able to provide the direction, who were able to get people involved and generate the economies. All of those things were essential in terms of turning that situation around, and the same applies elsewhere. Millbrook is in the process of doing much the same thing, and the growth there has been quite impressive.
What we see around the country are areas of educational attainment, and activity afterward, and employment being pursued on almost a sectoral basis. The awakening that occurred in the seventies led to a number of lawyers being employed. There are a lot of people pushing for leadership in the business community, and they are learning how to do that better, and that is going to keep replicating.