Thank you very much. I'd appreciate it if you could provide that to the committee. We'll have the chair discuss with you the manner in which it can be distributed.
For first nations, of course, we have a special relationship vis-à-vis taxation, where they live, etc. The challenge, I think it was Ms. Garrow or you, Mr. Head, who said that they're going back to reserves where there's virtually no employment.... I was thinking, maybe because of the person I'm married to, that estheticians seem to get a lot of business from the Norlock side of things. I guess I'm saying that those are some of the skills....
I've lived in many areas in the province. If you go to the neighbourhoods that I've lived in, almost every other neighbourhood has someone whose secondary employment is a hairdressing or esthetician salon, and I suspect it's the same around the country. This might be an area that you might want to think of, because it's an area of high employment, and, of course, as a government, in regard to the employment benefits, we're looking at it. We've already looked at it and have made employment benefits in those areas. I see it as an opportunity. I wonder if you could ruminate on that for us.
One of the things I'd like to see done with regard to first nations is that we'll have to work with.... All parliamentarians are going to have to deal with this. We encourage people to return from whence they came. For a first nations territory, for instance, where there's no employment, maybe we need to say the same thing to our first nations communities that we say to other communities, which is that you go where the jobs are. That might be a way to alleviate a return to hopelessness and a life of crime. Once again, it's something that on this side of the fence we're going to have to work on, but work on with you.
I was very interested in what you talked about in regard to the heavy equipment; we wouldn't want a D9 going through a wall somewhere. I'm very much interested in the housing market, because it's a huge area where we can.... I'm wondering if you could suggest to the committee how we can work with Habitat for Humanity, because they have one of the best records. In my particular riding, we've used them, and we've been able to get some federal dollars into the program to help hire the difficult-to-employ people, or, in other words, people with no skills or who perhaps have been not in the federal institutions but the provincial institutions, etc.
Could you suggest to the committee some of the things we can do to help you make that function better with Habitat for Humanity, and then in the construction trades in general, and also how you see public-private partnerships? You have a budget to live by, and you did mention something about the oil and gas industry. Well, the construction industry, I think, can contribute there. As well, I think you have a good working relationship with the trade union movement, which would be of interest to my friends across the way and, quite frankly, to me.
Could you talk about how we as government and as parliamentarians could work with you to make those things happen?