The council has had targets specifically in areas where we need to achieve labour market representation. A particular area where we're still striving and still have more work to do is in the recruitment of indigenous persons to join the NRC organization. We have made progress, but we still need to work to close the gap in terms of labour market availability.
We are also working very hard to have more persons with disabilities join the NRC. It's an area where we have a continued gap in labour market availability and in our workforce.
Those are two areas of focus, and we have set targets for those. We're quite intentional about following up and developing ways to reach out and be proactive in order to actually close these gaps. We put a lot of active work into it, but I would say that it remains a work-in-progress.
In terms of racialized Canadians, we've seen the most recent survey, which is new, and it has given us a challenge, as Canada has changed and the composition of the Canadian population is changing. We would have been exceeding our labour market availability in the previous survey, but now we have a small gap to close. I'm actually quite confident that we will do so.
Quite frankly, this cascades down through the organization through accountabilities to me in terms of our performance, and we have a pretty strong program to monitor what we're doing on an ongoing basis.
