If I may, there is also a problem in some of the communities, in Manitoba, especially. In our northern communities we have a division that's called Frontier School Division. Even if a lot of the women coming out of there have a higher level, grade 11 or 12, it's a low level of education. When we try to get them into the trades, we have to upgrade them first. If we don't have the funding to do that, then those women are stuck in the muck, I would say. So that is a really crucial problem, the education system.
We also had a partnership with Manitoba Hydro in our province. We did have a partnership where we did a lot of upgrading.
Also, too, what happens is the cultural shock in leaving their communities, so that's another problem we face. We do a lot of upgrading, as much as we can, if we can get the people to come out of those communities. We have to put support systems in place so that they don't have to deal with this cultural shock. All that costs a lot of money, and our funding has stayed the same for 10 years, as we mentioned in our submission.
We're making a lot of groundwork with the Métis women as a whole. We just don't want to lose that now. We want to continue doing the good work that we're trying to do for the women.