We have just received funding to hire somebody to deliver a special bridging project within our employment services. It's looking at sector-specific training. We have a meeting coming up in a couple of days with career and employment services, Can-Sask. They would like us to entertain the idea of partnering with some other community-based agencies, such as aboriginal family service agencies, to deliver some trades training.
They wanted us to look at the idea of opening some of our services to non-immigrants and refugees. Of course, that is not our mission, and we have to be careful about mission drift. Within the bridging project, we are looking beyond the hospitality and cleaning industry. They are important and we have clients who need those jobs, but we are also looking at some of the higher-skilled positions and trades, because we want to try to get more newcomers into trades in Saskatchewan.
