I won't get into a debate on that particular issue. My constituency has the largest reserve in Canada, and I spend a lot of time with them. They've become great friends of mine. I hear of a lot of things that work and that definitely do not work. One of the things they make very clear—not chief and council, but many people who have lived through the things we've heard about in this committee—is that we need the programming that can be available; however, the federal money that comes to that reserve for those programs is diverted elsewhere.
What about the aboriginal skills and employment training strategy? That program has been around for a while. Is it working? We've heard repeatedly from witnesses that.... My focus has always been on once they're in conflict with the justice system, absolutely there appears to be some systemic prejudice, and we need to work on that. We understand that, but my focus has always been on how we prevent people from being in conflict to begin with.
We've heard repeatedly that there are poverty issues, education issues, a lot of issues. The aboriginal skills and employment training strategy has been in place for some time, and I'm just wondering, from your experience, whether it's effective.