Thank you, Ms. Neville. It's a pleasure seeing you again from Manitoba. We shared some time together on the Winnipeg school board.
I believe that perhaps we felt we'd made significant inroads with women in science, and perhaps we've backed off on some of those programs. I think that's a mistake. We need to continue to bring in mentors, fund those programs, and be more forthcoming with that. We also need to look at our K-12 curriculum and enhance the science and earth science portion, which in many school divisions has been diluted or eliminated.
Geology and mining should be reinvigorated. There is a program by the PDAC called Mining Matters. It's 100% industry-funded and provides teacher-based curriculum to K-12 curriculum units, which the teachers then present to the classroom, so you don't have industry representatives right in the classroom and that whole issue. In fact, teachers are then given materials that they can use as hands-on instruction. That has been very successful in Ontario. I would recommend advancing and supporting that program across the country as an initiative that would be useful.