First, I think I should answer the question of why aboriginal people go into the public sector. It boils down to this: that's where your network is.
On the private sector side there are attempts to build a network with the Aboriginal Professional Association of Canada—APAC—and a few other ones. However, there should be more efforts in terms of building that network. Our aboriginal internship program is trying to address that by building network “angels”, as I look at them, that we can push into industry. Hopefully by then they'll hire three from their community, and so on and so forth. That's my hope, that the 15 will turn into 85, and 85 will turn into whatever the situation might be.
I think the AIP is going to start to really take effect in about 10 to 15 years as these individuals start moving up the food chain. I think we need to push more aboriginal people into those management levels in order to effect it. As I said, you have skills, you have the paper trails, and in between there's the gap. That's where there's the most influence.