I am going to take the next Conservative spot, unless my Conservative colleagues object. So I have five minutes.
I want to follow up on the employment issue. One of the things you did mention in your presentation, Mr. Green, was partnerships between educational institutions and the government. You talked about the need for greater investment in skills development. The polytechnic schools across Canada are very much involved in training of all sorts for people in both manufacturing and the energy sector. The one I know best from my city is NAIT. It trains between 13% and 18% of the apprentices across Canada and is doing some outstanding work with aboriginal communities by having mobile classrooms on reserves and other areas in northern Alberta and northern Saskatchewan.
One of the things they have found difficult is trying to get the federal government to partner with them. They have the provincial government there, and I assume it's the same across the country. Is the federal government in favour of apprenticeship training? There are a lot of initiatives on incentives in the recent budget, but is your department intending to become a partner with these types of institutions to form the partnerships you yourself identified in terms of increased funding for these types of institutions?