You know, you really make a good point. We had successes with things like the Alliance pipeline. We got a crew of people. We got them up to speed. They were working. Everything was great. Then the job ended. We had another job down the road, and people didn't want to go . We hadn't thought it through.
Look at something like the proposed energy east pipeline, with 165 pumping stations along the way. It's a megaproject in and of itself, with a pumping station every 50 miles. We could have developed, in communities along the right of way, a couple of electricians, a couple of steamfitters, a millwright or two, a carpenter, a labourer, a painter—people who would be required, for the life of that facility, to service it. They could have been home every night, because it's 50 miles to one station and 50 miles to the other. We missed the boat when energy east failed. There are a number of projects like that.
Look at the Nalcor facility at Muskrat Falls. We have a workforce building it there. We've been bringing in a fair number of indigenous people, but we haven't gotten enough of them into apprenticeable trades yet. That job will go live in two and a half years. When it does, they're going to need a workforce there. Who better to be the workforce than the people who live there?
We have to look differently at how we try to engage indigenous people. It needs to be on their terms and on their ground. I mentioned the lnnu-IBEW legacy project, which is going on in Newfoundland and Labrador now and which is trying to make certain that when the construction is done at Muskrat Falls, and the construction hopefully goes on at Gull Island, the people who live there will be front and centre in doing the work and having careers.