I can answer some of that based on the survey results.
Quite a number of the people we spoke to were in the mining industry. They noted several things. There are a lot of mines that will be opening in Canada. There is a lot of foreign investment for mining, and then there's the required skill set. It was described that there is a labour pool, but the gap is so wide between being able to train somebody to work in the mines, and the various skills in the communities that are around certain locations for mining.
There were lower levels of literacy than expected, for example. If you needed to read a training manual, there was sometimes an issue between literacy and comprehension. It wasn't so much, “We can come in and we have a lot of jobs“. We first need to address the gap around literacy and numeracy. So that was one of the things that really got talked about a lot in the round tables, particularly in the mining community.
When there were jobs and individuals were able and wanted to work in those areas, the employers spent a fair amount of time on the training initiative. However, some employers that went into the communities expected that there would be some local skills-training programs. That's where they were talking about this. I go back to the example that there was a lot of hairdressing, but there weren't mining-related skills. So a little bit of a mismatch was happening.