It's a challenge. The late Norman Schwarzkopf said that logistics win the war. The logistics of remote communities present a problem in terms of getting prefabricated materials up there. You have to do an awful lot of planning in advance. It's not that it cannot be done; it can be done, but it's all about the logistics. It depends on what you want. If you want multi-unit facilities to be built, you need to prefabricate as much as you can off-site, bring it up there and then, as my colleague to my left said, have the right people on site to assemble the units. Logistics become a challenge.
Having had a son who has worked remotely for a large multinational corporation, I know that finding people who will work in remote sites is difficult. There are younger people in construction who don't want to do it; that is the simple truth. My son did it; he loved it, and he got paid for it. He got paid handsomely for it as a young guy. I tease him a bit about making too much money at 23. However, it's the truth, so you have a challenge there.
As for things that governments can do, perhaps look at the tax structure. Are there incentives governments can offer people to work in more remote locations? Are there incentives they can offer companies to do work there? It does present its own challenges to work in the north. It's not about who's living on the land or who has it; that's not the issue at all. It's not there. It's more about the logistics and getting people to be there who want to be there. There's a lot of work to be done all across Canada, no matter where you are. It's just finding the time and giving the businesses and the people the right incentives to say, “Hey, we need you in this community to build X, Y and Z.”