Finance committee  Our understanding is that these are long-term jobs, but they're sustained by other things as well. We have 46% of the Métis living in Winnipeg as well, and that represents 6.5% of the population. Our CDEM, our Centre de développement économique, helps them create jobs as well. There are long-term jobs.

Finance committee  Yes, we do. We work through our Community Futures corporation and our Francophone Economic Development Organizations to go into those communities and inform of the program. We also do—

Finance committee  First of all, every time we do a launch of a program—for example, our western innovation program—we do an outreach email to all our network partners, and they do communicate that through the whole Manitoba region. We also work with all the non-profit associations to spread the message that the programming is available, and—

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is France Guimond, and I am the acting assistant deputy minister for the Manitoba region. With me today are James Meddings, whom you have met, our ADM for policy and strategic direction, and Ryan Dunford, acting director general for policy and strategic direction.