In Manitoba, we have a Métis women organization that's part of the Manitoba Metis Federation--she has a seat on the board--so anything for training for women, the organization does give a lot of support to the Métis women of Manitoba. We give them a lot of support.
Well, I'm with the mainstream Manitoba Metis Federation, and we have a spokesperson, so we give a lot of support to the women who want to get into the non-traditional trades.
We have a lot of success stories. One of the things that we brought here today is a book that profiles the impact of the Métis labour force development program, Métis Works. If we can, we can leave this book for your information.
One of the examples of what we've done for the education of the Métis women--and for students as a whole, but it's been really helping the women--is we have a program that's called Standing Tall. It copies Tu Tangata from New Zealand. It's a pilot project, and we have videos on this. It is really helping the students to get a better education because this is where the parents are working within the school system. Through our aboriginal human resource development dollars, we are able to bring in some students--I think they were all Métis women because I was signing their cheques--to work within the schools to help the parents to be more involved in the education system. So that was a real success story.
Of course, we did a partnership and we're very much hoping that we continue with the Standing Tall project. We were able to second a school teacher from one of our school divisions to work with us on this. We do give a lot of support to the women in our province, and we'll continue to do so. But for non-traditional trades I think our problem is that a lot of them are in these non-traditional trades and their wages are not equitable with the men's.
We also do community-based training. We held community-based training for such things as firemen, and such things as heavy equipment operators. We've done that. I see one of my women who is operating one of those big machines. We're really proud of all that.