One of the consultations, regional round tables, that I mentioned was specifically done with indigenous people from indigenous communities, employers who had indigenous employees, chambers of commerce in the north, and things like that. A telecommunication company, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, was the one that was done by video conference just because it was easier to do it that way. That's how they were consulted.
You may be interested to know that in the discussion paper that was released to underpin the consultations, specific reference was made to a leave for people to participate in indigenous practices. It generated a lot of discussion, almost all of it positive. In fact, a number of employers told us that they already offer that kind of leave. Our estimate is that about 25,000 employees in the federally regulated private sector could potentially benefit from this leave.
In terms of the five days—because this is a groundbreaking leave—we have a very unique data base of collective agreements across the country, not just federally regulated. We found 21 federally regulated employers, unionized, who have collective agreements for these purposes. They range from offering two days to seven days, and most of them were five days. We tried the five out with the people we consulted with, and they thought that was a good number, that it made sense to them.