Oh, wow, thank you.
In our system it's quite a simple process. In fact, if a woman walks through our door, we have an intervention system that would look to her skill set, where she's at right now, and what would she need. We'd also be sitting down with the union because when you deal with a bigger industry, the union's always involved, so you have to figure out how to make sure, because there are specific rules in a union. So we sit down with the union and establish the process of partnership to ensure that the young lady would find her position somewhere in there.
We have a mechanism where we sit down with the actual client and we establish all the necessary skills. Then we also partner with the mining industry in the sense of making sure of the area where the person would be needed most. We would then gear that person, and if we have to go to levels of trade to reach that particular level, then we'll work there.
Where the challenges lie are on the apprentice side because the provinces.... For example, I made reference that I was going to speak on job grants. There is no reference to aboriginal at all in the job grants transition; it's actually the provinces. In the past the province never had to collect data; we always collected data on every dollar that was invested in every student. Provinces did not collect data. I'm hoping that this time they'll be forced to collect data, because in the job grants that they're talking about on the apprentice, that lady would probably fit that position if the $5,000, $5,000, and $5,000 was available for long-term guaranteed employment.
From our perspective, as I've seen in evidence in my province, there is no relationship with the province when it comes to the so-called money, LMAs and LMDA money that comes into our province. There is no relationship with the Métis. So when this outcry comes that aboriginal people are losing out, that's not true, because we're not getting anything from that money. In fact, they tell us to use our own money, the federal money that we receive.