There is a difference in terms of participation between the urban and the rural, primarily because the training locations can often be situated in the urban setting, which requires people to come to the city to take the training program.
There is work being done, and we are hoping to encourage government to provide the resourcing, to see the training programs take place in rural and semi-remote settings. As you can appreciate, the cost of doing this is significantly higher than the cost of having training in the urban setting. But growth is going to be taking place or is taking place in a number of different economic sectors on the traditional territories of the first nations people. In cases such as these, the first nation communities are really the logical place to look for an available labour pool when, for example, it comes to building natural gas pipelines or mining or exploration on traditional territories. All of this is work that first nations people can engage in. It's in their backyard.
It is critical, then, to enable the opportunity to let the training take place in the rural setting. The cost, as I said, is certainly higher for doing so, but then you're not faced with the other challenges of people coming to the urban setting. There is housing, there's child care, there's transportation, all of which become added factors.
I'd like to see more programming right in the rural community.