Thank you for the question.
The latest statistics, at a national level, indicate that Canada will need about 112,000 skilled workers for the mining sector alone. It is estimated that about 10% of those are going to be located in British Columbia. So the issue for us is significant in the sense that we are actually running out of time to get ready, if projects are going to get approved. We have not hit the point where businesses are getting stalled because we don't have the workers, but companies are having to go abroad to look for that skilled workforce.
In terms of what the industry is actually doing, the foreign worker program is certainly helping in terms of meeting the immediate need, but we continue to look for opportunities to provide training and capacity development at a local level. This is where aboriginal training opportunities come into play and continued funding both at the federal and the provincial level, in addition to industry contributions, are very important.