There are a couple of things I would point out. The first is that the figure of $500 million is, in this context, extremely small. When the federal government was very serious about improving employment among aboriginal people, something like $636 million was aimed just at aboriginal groups. That's a large amount of money for such a small population. That $500 million spread across a population that is admittedly large and growing is really a drop in the bucket. It's certainly a step in the right direction, but it would need to be increased tremendously, perhaps by scaling back some of the corporate income tax cuts, which, by next year, will cost Canada $10.3 billion per year in lost revenue.
The second thing is that a number of job training programs that will inevitably be put in place, I believe, will take the form of focusing on the trades and apprenticeships. And although some provinces have established programs to try to gain equity in those areas of employment, the document I circulated indicates on page 1 that only 7% of those people in the trades, transportation, and construction are women. So it's still not going to get at the problem this committee is predominantly concerned with.