That is an excellent question. Thank you very much for that.
We were probably, back in the day, a have-not community. We started with nothing. Our financial situation was dire. We went from that to coming together as a community. So, what did we do? We then negotiated a treaty land entitlement; there was spinoff from that; and then specific claims; there was spinoff from that.
More recently, we got into other investments. We got oil and gas going. We got our farming operation going, and so on and so forth. But as we were getting these businesses going, we couldn't leave the community behind with regard to training, right? We weren't getting enough dollars with regard to training. You have to understand that many of our people, in our community specifically, have come from many generations of not working, because that was taken away from them. They worked on farms and on this and that, and so on and so forth; but you had the system of dependency. It was created, and our people became dependent on that, and that's the road they got. We went from that, we borrowed money and we made other investments. We made an $8-million investment in Westleaf Cannabis, which is now a $60-million business for Thunderchild First Nation specifically.
When it comes to employment and training, that's what the spinoffs create for Thunderchild First Nation.