The mining companies in northern Saskatchewan, with the government and the northern community, said of the workforce at the mine sites that we would strive and make best efforts to achieve a 67% employment rate of northerners. That's one fact.
The second fact is that we are at 50%.
The third fact is that in the last six years we have increased the number of aboriginal people employed by 183%.
What we're experiencing as a fourth fact is that we're tapping out the skilled labour population, so the first nation communities and the mining companies are now working together, in an interest-based focus, on how to increase that number.