I think we can say that a strong nation has a strong navy and a strong navy needs recruits.
We get out to small communities. You identified the west coast of Canada. I believe that about 50% of the mariners in Canada are working on the west coast right now. Many are working on the east coast—about 25% to 30%—and the rest are distributed on the lakes, with some in the Arctic.
In order to build a workforce for the future, we have to get into the schools early and we have to start planting the seed in young people's heads that this is an option for them. We run into a lot of people. We go to schools and out to the communities. They're actually looking at us and saying, “Isn't that interesting? Is this something I could do?” They aren't even aware of the possibilities and opportunities in an industry that's crying out for people.
I don't know if that partly answers your question.
By the way, we recently signed an agreement with the Coast Guard Academy to be a satellite campus for them in the western Arctic. We're looking forward to that relationship and to building on that relationship with DND, with the RCN, potentially with the Raven program, with the rangers and with others.
I spoke not long ago in Yellowknife at the Joint Task Force North's Arctic security working group conference. I explained our whole position on how this could support defence and recruitment in the north.
It's a long answer, but I got it in.