Absolutely, yes. The 6% that I referred to is only the increase in women. From the perspective of women, 50% of our population, really, is untapped. From the perspective of the whole aboriginal issue, we entered into an agreement with the Assembly of First Nations to try to work collectively on this issue.
We first started looking at this about eight or nine years ago. We reached out to the Assembly of First Nations, and we got in a number of people who had expertise in the education systems. It really appeared at first to be like trying to hug a cloud, because each little community has a different way of doing things, and they've got different ideas and values. So we wanted to try to get to a point where we could work towards helping to improve the basis—the basic education pieces—without alienating the group that we were trying to help by simply trying to go ahead with it.
So we do a number of things. We support a lot of the workshops and summer camp programs that they've got in the various first nations and aboriginal communities around the country. We've got quite an active program in supporting those workshops just so they get a feeling that science is fun, and math is fun, and subsequently, engineering can be fun as well.
The Alberta association is just in the process of really developing their outreach. They're working with industry. They have worked quite a bit with getting the gas and oil industry, which is predominant in northern Alberta, to help within the communities with that basic primary level education, so that the people will have the opportunity to move forward.
The ongoing program that I mentioned and that we're trying to help get spread across Canada to other universities is called NAEP. That's a bridging program they have, understanding that people coming from some of their local aboriginal communities may not have the math and science from their high schools. It's a program to work with them—and there's some financial support—to take two to three years to get through first-year engineering, so that they have the time to bring those skills up to speed, and then they just go into the regular stream with the rest of the engineers. They have been quite successful with that.