From the ICT perspective, currently there's somewhere in the magnitude of 3,000 jobs going unfilled in the province of New Brunswick right now. That number changes weekly because, obviously, people come in and out of the job market but it's holding about the same, it's around 3,000. If you look at all of our strategic initiatives, whether they be at a federal or provincial level—certainly on federal from the folks on innovation, and locally in the province of New Brunswick with its current government focus on innovation—we are only going to exacerbate that problem.
Today, if we made substantial changes to the education platform, we would only have an impact four years from now, generally speaking. This problem is not a problem that will go away in a short period of time. It's a problem that we have identified for a number of years already and we are going to continue to compound that. That isn't necessarily to say that this is all grey, or doom and gloom. There are an awful lot of things that are happening to try to offset that. One of the most effective ones we're investing in is the experiential learning aspects. We've heard that a number of times around the table.
Some of these skills can be filled with not necessarily a degree program. They can be filled with an existing degree program combined with an experiential learning certificate program, or something of that nature. We're tackling that particular problem around experiential learning. We formed a relationship just recently, as was mentioned, around the business faculty where we're going to be bringing business faculty third-year and fourth-year students into our start-up community. They will participate in start-up companies, going at acceleration in the incubation period as experiential learners. The business gets highly trained third-year and fourth-year students. The business gets that skill set, but also the student gains first-hand experience inside a new start-up organization.