All 13 provinces and territories have signed final agreements committing to deliver the job grant in their jurisdictions. I believe that eight of the jurisdictions have opened their systems to accept applications. Quebec is a bracket in this because they will not be delivering the job grant given the different nature of their system.
The first grant was approved in Manitoba about six weeks ago. So it's frankly too early to give you statistical data on how much employers are contributing. But I can tell you in the case of the first recipient, it was a mid-sized IT company in Manitoba that received a grant to train 20 workers in a very expensive IT certification program. I asked the business owner if he would have done that anyway. He said he's putting in a third of the cost and he said, no, he could maybe have afforded to hire four or five of these people and train them up for certification, but because of the job grant he was able to do 20 and this will help massively to expand his business.
And Ms. Sims, you'll be pleased to know it was an NDP government in Manitoba that approved that first grant.