In Saskatchewan, when you work with francophone communities, that is to say where there is a francophone majority or at least a francophone presence, you sometimes forget that this benefits the entire community, both francophones and anglophones. I can give you some examples.
In a small community of 500 inhabitants, we helped set up a seniors centre providing primary, secondary and tertiary health care in the province. That created eight permanent jobs in addition to the jobs generated during the construction period.
In another community, we are setting up a similar centre, which will create roughly 10 jobs and approximately 70 more during the construction period. That will benefit the entire community.
We also helped a community in the southwestern part of the province create an emergency centre that serves a region. Our employee helped establish the centre, which provides both an ambulance service and a firefighting service. Those five jobs were generated in a community of approximately 400 inhabitants.
That does not seem like a lot, but you have to bear in mind that we work with micro-businesses. In Saskatchewan, the big businesses with French names like Bourgault Industries can have some 2,000 employees. However, since we rely on five or six employees to provide services to businesses, those big businesses do not really need our help. On the other hand, we can help them find labour, for example.
That varies for entrepreneurs. I can cite you some examples. There is a crisis in the child care service sector in our region. There is a shortage of spaces in the early childhood centres. We have helped set up day care centres.
We offer a variety of services. We helped one entrepreneur start up a motel, a hotel-restaurant project, which made it possible to create some 15 jobs.