For us, our journey with the federal government was very, very good. We did not really have the skill sets in the office to do their big cashflows. All of a sudden, it fell on the shoulders of...and it happened to be me. But they were very good with the partnership and with helping us build capacity in our organization. Our journey with them has actually been good.
We also had HRSDC. We were funded through the pan-Canadian initiative. We also got funding from INAC, which has the SINED fund. They helped with project management in terms of helping us figure out where we could get money and which would be the best departments to fund us.
For provincial partners, we had Education, Culture and Employment, which is the education piece in the Northwest Territories. For NGOs, we had the Native Women's Association, which we work very closely with all the time on other projects also. And we had De Beers, Diavik, and BHP, the three mining companies. We did have Irving Oil for a short period of time, but then negotiations were needed in other areas.
Our experience working with partners has been very good. I think it really added to the success of the project, because things we didn't have the capacity to do, others did.