Yes, I think that's quite right. Depending on the baseline circumstance of individuals in those communities, temporary work may be better than nothing at all, but what we're really after is the development of long-term employment prospects that flow from long-term sustainable economic development.
What we are about--in response to the observation that the Auditor General has made--is not the value per se of the investment and the jobs that are created; her report indicates that the communities have responded well to these programs and the objectives are clear. Going forward, we want to be able to demonstrate to parliamentarians that we know what has been achieved.
So I think in our case, we will continue the investment that Parliament provides for skills training and job development, but our emphasis at the moment is on how we go about that so that we can in fact demonstrate value over time. These strategic plans, these business plans that we will be developing with the organizations, will articulate what those goals are, what the provision will be for long-term benefit.
Then we've been developing indicators. We refer in our action plan to some of those, the impact of the program on the duration of client employment, the impact on earnings of the clients, one indicator being the reliance of the client on employment insurance or other forms of income support, and then various measures of satisfaction of the individuals who've been through those programs.
In time, as we develop those indicators through the employers and the employees, we will be able to demonstrate much more systematically the long-term value of these investments.