Thank you very much. I apologize if I wasn't clear enough. I'll go with that last point first, if I may.
Gaming is something that we do not have at this point in time. We have an ambition to carefully look at that and perhaps at some point in time be involved in the gaming industry. I used gaming as an example of success in other provinces and other areas, but we're not quite there in that facility. So I can't comment too much more on that.
On the early child centre and the developments there, the child development centre is focused on under five years of age right up to the kindergarten level--just the preschool level. Yes, we do have children under five years of age. The childhood development centre, quite frankly, used to be open to all of the public with our first nation children involved. Over time it's evolved to where we focus now on the WFN first nation community children.
The need is so great in that area, we've had to supplement. But we do that with eyes wide open. It costs more to operate than we can provide in actual raising of dollars. Therefore we need to find other programs and other ways to assist, and that's what we willingly do.
The dividends, I think, are very important, because the thinking we have there is to provide the opportunities for that early learning. A lot of the kindergarten children come out of that early childhood development centre with knowledge that helps them in that first grade level. I think it's really important to focus in on that younger age.
I've seen communities in the far north, for example. Fort Nelson is one of the communities where I've seen the mothers with the babies in the classrooms or in the facility in the community centre, and their other children are perhaps enrolled in the school. But it's one of invitation, it's one of inviting in that community in Fort Nelson that really works. It has the parents directly involved at the school level and feeling part of it. They don't feel that they come just to simply sit there, drink coffee, and have a babysitting service.
It's an environment that has to be created whereby the young children, the babies, and so forth have that comfort. They have the knowledge that their parent or the school system or the first nation community is there to help them. I think that's the feeling that has to be attributed from early birth right through.
In some cases it takes training of the parents, because alcoholism and drug abuse is where I think the real poverty lies. It's within families in that situation. So that has to be focused on. It's a big challenge, I think, in Canada to make sure that's a focus. If you don't start at that very early age, I think communities will have less advantage and it will be more difficult to get individuals out of that poverty.