I like to meet that Les someday because we always have to do more with him. Do you get it? Do more with less. We were told that when I worked for the department, so I still remember that part of it.
Definitely, child care is an issue where I come from at Six Nations. There are not enough spaces in the daycares—we have two of them. We don't have.... You see, they don't allow for a private sector employer to come along. It always has to be the band council, and that's not something that always works. So having private sector people get in there and start building businesses to address some of the issues would really help.
It's the same with transportation. My organization has gone miles ahead of what they should be doing in terms of our mandate just to address some of those issues. We've had a study done on transportation. We have a minibus now to take our students to the unions in Toronto, so that our young people can get exposed or oriented to the different unions, jobs, and stuff; and actually, they get hired by a union employer. That's the whole idea behind it.
As far as assets go, yes, you're right in some of the things you said, but sometimes you have to stretch it because it doesn't work. One of the areas you mentioned was not having enough time for the intervention. Well, you take your time. You might start with a person in basic skills, in literacy and all that, then you move him onto the next one, which is high school, then you move him on to the next one, which is skills training, or they may just go on to university, or return to school. We do that kind of thing. We're not stopped by what doesn't make sense. We're reasonable people, and if we think that's the way it should go, that's what we do.
I don't think our funder can say that's wrong, because we are addressing the issue. It just takes longer, but they have one intervention each time.