Thank you.
I think the words you used, Ms. Bennett, were bang on: the partnership that you would have with the community. We're a participant in the Wabasca community. We have an office within the community and it is staffed from the community, which puts us in a position where we can communicate. In 2011 we had $50-million worth of contracts within the community. We chair an industry group, so there's your sense of partnership.
How do we build capacity? It's a great question. We do it by asking the community. Our involvement with the other industry members in answering that question is called “managing growth”. We work with chief and council. We work with the social institutions and the schools within the community of Wabasca, not just to ask the question about training—which we're looking for, and I'll come back to the potential impact on training within the Wabasca community—but to ask where we could or should make a difference in the donations or the contributions with the community, and where it's viewed that it has the greatest effect. We've had great success with the community in directing those investments to where they identify the need, rather than us assuming what it is.
With respect to jobs, the metaphor I used is Calgary. I was born in Calgary. One member of our board of directors described Calgary in the 1960s and 1970s as being full of Texas and Oklahoma accents, because the geologists and engineers did come from the U.S. Today, we come from Calgary, from Kingston, Ontario, or from Halifax. It's the same thing in the community. People flying in are currently more dominant in our workforce, but our commitments are to train in the local community. Our incentive to do that is not only the retention, but also the direct impact on the community from really good-paying jobs. At an operating level, I'm talking about jobs that are in the six figures.
Our direct commitment isn't just partnership and participation. It's capacity building with the local industry and it's listening to the community, not only in how we participate in meeting needs, but in how we can jointly work together to meet mutual needs between jobs and a long-term sustainable workforce—and jobs of quality.