Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Chief Louie, for giving us some of your valuable time and sharing your wisdom and experience with our committee. We've had the opportunity to chat several times about the challenges of first nations communities across the country, and we appreciate your leadership of 18 years. I understand you just put your name forward for the next election, so congratulations, and I hope you'll be able to continue on with your success.
I just wanted to add a supplemental to my colleague Mr. Savage's comments about education. Maybe you could share with the committee some of the successes and the opportunities of the youth. Our fastest-growing demographic in Canada is young aboriginal Canadians. What we're looking at is how we can take that education component. We've had success in the community working with Okanagan College as well as UBC Okanagan.
Could you share with the committee how Okanagan Nation Alliance as well as the Westbank First Nation have been able to partner for post-secondary education for trade skills and training, so you have the labour, and you can give the education, which means employment, which provides for prosperity in the future?