In Manitoba there is a lot of work going on to take trades into school. Equally there's STEM, but the trades side doesn't quite come with the cachet of the academics and professions. In Manitoba, of course, we have a large manufacturing sector—like Alberta—so we have to get our women in there, and they want to be in there. With the school divisions, we're linking in with them.
We are very much at the beginning of developing our resources, so we are looking at bringing people into that role to look at what's needed. Certainly for the younger students to be able to have access to understand the trades, there's the apprenticeship offering. Our offices are based within the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology, which puts us in quite a nice position because we can actually see what's happening on the ground. It's important.