Everyone agrees that we have to find a way to make sure aboriginal Canadians play a more important role, that they can join the mainstream of society in this country. We're already seeing this to some degree. Today our workforce has a much higher participation rate for aboriginals off-reserve than in the past. That's because the economy is hot. We've taken some steps to take advantage of that, like the aboriginal skills employment program. In general, this government's philosophy is to fund things that we know work. That's why we doubled the size of ASEP. It works really well.
When it comes to some of the other training initiatives—and I'll speak about these because I'm familiar with them—we are concerned that they haven't worked as well as they could have. We owe it to taxpayers to make sure they work, and we owe it to vulnerable aboriginal people to make sure they work better than they do. So we are taking a hard, fundamental look at things like the aboriginal human resources development agreements. There are hundreds of these across this country, and we want to make sure they serve aboriginals better than they have up till now.