I appreciate that.
Mr. Atchison, in the community in British Columbia that I come from, the Shuswap construction industry professionals, the local college and secondary school, and the city—I was mayor of that city—all partnered with the contractor who built a spec house. We had nine students who were there through the whole process, right from the time they dug the hole until they put the roof on and did the finishing inside that place. The professionals in the various trades donated their time to walk alongside them when they were doing the wiring, the plumbing, or whatever it was.
It was a great successful program. Of the nine students I recall, eight of them were offered jobs after they graduated. I guess what I'm looking at is community-based employability training. I think it's so important that the community be involved in this. That worked very well for us.
Here's my question. As far as your experience goes in connecting with those people who are on employment insurance and looking to be retrained or whatever, are you able to interact there as part of the LMDAs and help those people who need further skills and who are collecting EI?