Sure, I'll clarify that.
The LMAs contain a clause that calls on the joint committee, federal and provincial officials, to work together and integrate their respective programs with the aboriginal communities. The argument that we made and that came from this particular research is that even though the clause is there, it was never enacted. That's number one.
Number two, the clause itself does not contain any mediation for the provinces, territories, and federal government to incorporate or include aboriginal representatives in that particular committee or in that particular discussion. So that is the number one part of this.
The second part of it is that whenever provinces choose to be involved in aboriginal programmings—and the LMDAs and the LMAs all contain aboriginal language in there. So we don't work at counter-purposes to each other, it would be appropriate for the provinces to invite and consult with the aboriginal communities, and to the extent that is possible, deliver services to the communities through the existing agents we have in place. For the past 16, 17, 18 years the aboriginal community has been painstakingly trying to develop a labour market service delivery structure that has hundreds of delivery points across the west, Ontario to the west.
It's counterintuitive that the provinces are not using this structure and consulting with aboriginal communities to the extent that they should.