Yes, absolutely, all of those programs, to the extent that they are interested, can certainly play an important role in providing youth with employment as part of the two billion trees strategy.
We've also heard many speakers talk as well about the need for a plan, so obviously there should be a larger plan that the youth get engaged in with regard to which species and where, as well as how to ensure diversity and resiliency and climate adaptation.
There most definitely is a role, and there is also a role for environmental education as part of this. In these training programs, when they are planning about trees, they can also learn about the world of trees and forests as windows onto the world and the sustainability solutions they can provide. They can start to learn some of these things we have heard about: the role of forests, the economic benefits, the conservation benefits, and the community benefits. What are the forests of the day? What are the forests of the future as well?
There are all sorts of learning opportunities, and I would love to do what we started to advance in our programs and in collaboration with others, which is to bust out the career pathway, so that if we need carbon modellers or we need mass timber architects or we need species recovery specialists with certain expertise in ecology and biology, we start demonstrating the skills that are required and the courses that should be taken, and that on-the-job experience is provided so that they get interested. That's the most rewarding thing that we've had so far. We've taken youth who really had no job prospects but who are now in a technical college or are going into a forestry school or into engineering.
The youth corps and the youth employment and skills strategy and all of these programs can support youth, and one of the things they can also do is support things like the two billion trees strategy. They can also support invasion strategies and many of the other topics and themes that we've heard about.