Again, I think that we have to get better use of our facilities in communities such as adult learning centres and schools wherever possible, if that means sharing space or sharing a service centre such as a computer centre, and I think that we have to be able to get as much usage out of these facilities, especially in most cases, you know, the schools are shut down in the summer, pretty well locked down in most cases, and the same thing with the adult education centres. I think that is a perfect opportunity, especially for children that are struggling and if we can find a way to get them into summer programs and assist them so that when they go back to school in the fall time, hopefully they can catch up and give them those skills that they are going to need to realize that they are successful at whatever you want to do. Just put your mind to it and put a little more effort into it.
I think that we have to get more mileage out of our infrastructure in our communities and, wherever possible, joint share resources regardless of what federal dollars we get either through band funding or dollars we are able to acquire through federal funds through the unemployment insurance funding or even looking at funds that come by way of federal infrastructure funding.
I think we are realizing the importance of having a qualified workforce when it comes to these large projects, regardless of whether we are talking pipelines or even if we are challenged with filling just the positions in the area of the mining industry. I think, if anything, because we do have a young population, that we are going to have to find a way of getting as many people into the system but taking advantage of the infrastructure that we do have, because we cannot continue to build infrastructure. If anything, we have to get better use of that infrastructure.
So I think it is something that we have to be aware of going forward, but also make as much use of those facilities as we can while they’re in our communities and not have them locked up for any long periods of time simply because it’s the end of the school year or whatever. We have to use those facilities whenever possible. Thank you.