I could start with the skills gap, and I'll just talk very particularly to the shipbuilding initiative. Dalhousie worked very hard with the Irving company to put forward what was called the value proposition for that contract, in which the company had to describe what having that amount of business, $25 million, and now arguably slightly more, would mean and how they could use that to the wider value in the community.
We helped to design that value proposition, which they said got them high marks relative to other people competing for the same bid. In it is something called the marine partnership program and the design of that. That money coming from that portion of the value proposition that is already lined up with the existing money flowing to Irving is supposed to come into the Halifax Marine Research Institute as early as this December, to help to assemble a picture of what the training needs are, who is providing them, where in the country, and what else needs to be provided.
It's this assemblage of information, and we've been in constant communication with Irving, and all of our deans have been down en masse to have meetings, to ask what is it you need and what is it we can provide for you? Is it engineers? Is it a different kind of labour?
So this partnership program does not involve the university level only; it will also involve the college and high school level. But there is money coming forward from that shipbuilding contract to help diagnose the situation and figure out what programs we need to be coming up with. Certainly universities develop new programs. In fact, our biggest problem is retiring old ones that are not so useful any more.
I think the hope is that by working on that marine partnership program with a variety of universities across the country, we will be able to provide the skills that are needed for that initiative in any case.
Did you want to comment, Colin?