Certainly one of the things that post-secondary educators often say is that the British North America Act did a disservice by making education provincial, because it has hampered us. We know that now more than ever we see kids moving across provincial lines and trying to transfer credits. I come from western Canada, where we've had transfer councils in place for a long time. Yukon College is a member of both Alberta and B.C. councils, so our students can move fairly easily into the western universities.
As far as associations go, we also work very closely with associations in those two provinces and, where possible, with national associations. We try to make sure all of our programs are accredited as much as possible so students can move. But just with simple little things like trades, we're having a lot of difficulty. My counterparts at post-secondary institutions across this country are having a lot of problems with the apprenticeship system the way it works today. We're trying very hard to create innovative opportunities for students, again so they can move out of apprenticeship and into any jurisdiction in Canada.
Mining is a very migratory occupation. So is oil and gas. Those people need to be able to move. This is what we started the discussions with Alaska about, because even a simple thing like safety training is different 50 miles across the border in Alaska. We're hoping to have curriculum that will allow students to meet the safety standards across both jurisdictions and be able to move from one mining company to another. We have mining companies in Yukon that are operating mines in southeast Alaska, or in the lower 48, in Colorado and other places. They want to be able to move their labour across the border.