We've been in the unfortunate situation where we've had a decrease in the population. We were probably the only jurisdiction in Canada to have a decrease, for about 10 years. They were not significant decreases, maybe in the neighbourhood of 100 to 500 people annually. More recently, last year, we had a bit of a turnaround from the last few years, and our population grew by 0.5%. We've had some very modest goals on increasing our population. We've endeavoured to increase our population by 2,000 people over five years, and obviously it's in our interests to increase our population, because with our territorial formula financing agreements with the Government of Canada, the more people we have, the more money we get.
We've been trying to find ways to attract people. We have a lot of jobs, but it's expensive to live in the Northwest Territories. We've been looking at immigration. We'd like to have a lot more immigration into the Northwest Territories. We're starting to become very multicultural, and we're starting to turn in the right direction with some of the modest increases in our population.