We had an agreement with the northern gateway funding partners, of which there were 10, to allow us to participate in one billion dollars' worth of direct awards and set-asides for construction. When that opportunity was presented a lot of the first nations got together and developed JV partners. Some got together with other first nations to develop partnerships and spent money, and time and resources, in order to qualify their companies for this action, which was $1 billion but not limited to $1 billion. They were able to bid on any work over and above that.
There is a $300-million community investment fund that the AEP group, including the stewards, would manage throughout the 30 years that the project would be in operations. This community investment fund would be used to fund different types of community investment projects: arenas, band buildings, schools, and so forth. It was based on a certain percentage of the revenue that's going to be received from the project throughout the 30 years.
There was training and job employment funding that included special consideration. We know that a lot of the community members would have difficulty in transitioning into a job environment so we developed a life skills program, which included hired members from all of the communities, to be able to train the people in being able to keep their jobs, to give them life skills so they can manage their transportation to and from the jobs, and then a group that was going to be formed by the AP, which would be a job employment services company that would place the employment into future projects either in northern B.C. or outside the communities.
There's also funding for specific initiatives that were developed as part of negotiations to the communities relating to other larger types of community investment projects that were included in the $2-billion package. Then during the year of 2016, the AEP stewards were in negotiations with the funding partners to increase their proposed revenue from the 10% owners' equity to thirty-three and a third, one-third of ownership in the company, as well.