I'm from the Yukon. I certainly see a number of my constituents who enjoy economic opportunities in Fort McMurray, Fort Nelson, and areas in northern British Columbia. Obviously as we're exploring opportunities in the territory, one of the things that we're doing is heavily investing in trades training. The Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining is a good example of that.
What we're seeing is that those skills and investments by the federal government are highly transferable. So an investment in the education is great for the economy, great for development, and it's highly transferable. In my mind, that is preparatory work so people can work in the oil and gas sector but then take their trades and skills that they're learning through federal government investment into other sectors of the workforce should there be downturns in a particular economy.
Ms. Kenny, are you seeing that with people employed in the pipeline sector who are coming and going, ebbing and flowing? As there are opportunities, they move into it; as there are not, they're able to find secure, gainful employment in other sectors.