First of all, it has to be on many levels. There has to be revenue sharing with the first nations community both federally and provincially. I know that we're looking at it through the Mining Association of Canada and also the Ontario Mining Association has recommendations to the Ontario government on this subject. It starts right at the grassroots. If you've never been subjected to engineering or mining, how do you know it's something that you want to get into?
Part of the aboriginal access to engineering that Queen's University, for instance, developed was getting into the kindergarten, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, having materials, activity books explaining how the world works, that if you can't grow it you have to mine it. The whole of civilization depends on having a properly executed mining sector. It also would be helpful to create some incentives at the universities and colleges to be able to give access. Some of the high schools that are in the rural areas.... I come from a rural high school and frankly when I went to McGill I had a heck of a time with the math and physics. It's just the quality of education that sometimes is found, so you need to have access programs. The best one that I saw when I was looking at these is probably at the University of Manitoba.
As far as what the federal government can do, it is to incent those kinds of access programs, provide financial assistance to master's and Ph.D. programs in the type of research that we're doing in geology and in mining engineering, and other fields. I have to tell you that MIRARCO has been given $5 million over two years to help build capacity within first nation communities in Ontario so that they can take advantage of the cap and trade to maybe convert from diesel to other sources, all of these kinds of things. What I think we're doing in Ontario could be done on a federal level. It could be done nationally as well. I think this is a great opportunity for the first nations, if we do it right.