We refer to it as social infrastructure. The federal government has recently invested a lot in infrastructure, but that's more roads and bridges and physical bricks and mortar types of infrastructure. We want to call attention to the social infrastructure. It is just as important.
My focus recently has been on economic development in the north. We see this government investing a lot in helping companies exploit resources in the north and develop the north, but we're not seeing the social infrastructure investment that's also needed. So we're seeing very big problems emerging.
Through our local partner, Mokami Status of Women Centre in Happy Valley--Goose Bay, we participated in the environmental assessment hearings about the building of the dam in the Lower Churchill River. Nalcor, a big crown corporation in Newfoundland and Labrador that's spearheading this, actually claimed in front of the environmental assessment panel that there will be no social impacts on the community of Happy Valley--Goose Bay resulting from their economic development. We, and the I think the environmental assessment panel, were quite astounded to hear that. There is also a lack of recognition about what the impacts of economic development can be, and particularly in northern communities. So you need investment in social infrastructure as much as in any other form of infrastructure when you're talking about economic development.