We're certainly hopeful that the investment in the ASEP program that was mentioned earlier will have some benefit, although there's no choice. They decide which jobs you go into, so that limits the choice. Most of those jobs are in areas that women don't traditionally choose, because they frequently involve fly-in and having to live there for two weeks. Those kinds of jobs change the whole child care issue into something quite different. Quite frankly, women are much more connected to the earth and their sense of belonging to the earth, and many of those jobs that are supported through ASEP are in areas that are harming the environment, so those jobs are not something that we find aboriginal women going towards.
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