I am a partner in an aboriginal majority-owned company, so we're hitting some of these things head-on.
I don't want to take a lot of time, but I want to share a story about a trip to China. We were looking at potentially working with a company overseas. One of the things they addressed right away was, “You don't have to hire. You don't have to expand. Just bring your work to China, and we'll do it here for you.” That was really disconcerting from a perspective of being an aboriginally controlled company, because there are tremendous resources here of people who are unemployed in this province.
I appreciate some of the comments coming from the polytechnics side of it, because if businesses were being asked to invest dollars to try to bring education and that next step in work readiness skills to the aboriginal community.... I think we need to do a lot more in that area. I appreciate those wraparound services. We're trying to make use of them, but it really is about bringing sustainable education to those aboriginal communities and then helping them transition into our workplace, not just as labourers, but as a highly skilled, highly valuable workforce in our country. We need some investment in education and support services to be able to do that.