Thank you, Madam Chair. I think one of the reflections that I can give to committee in coming into a large department like Infrastructure, first of all, very much regionally based. The department is, I think, 53 or 54 percent regionally based in terms of positions. A lot of the money that we have in Infrastructure is regionally based funding. I think it's a very positive picture, there. I think one of the big reflections that I have is that, within Infrastructure, we have a lot of really dedicated employees that continue to do an exceptional job at their specific area. However, we're not strong on communications. It's one of the big things that I'm looking at in the department, how do we create more opportunities to see what the department is doing.
Again, as the Minister was mentioning, we have a lot of very specific professions. We have engineers; we have very specific tradespeople. We're looking at training programs so that we increase the Indigenous representation within our workforce, but right now, again, overall workplace representation within Infrastructure and Indigenous-Aboriginal is 45.2 percent. It's a strong one in terms of the numbers and, if you talk about in terms of our number of employees, total, we get close to, if you talk about all the revolving funds and everything, we're at about 600 employees. That's a lot of Indigenous-Aboriginals that we're putting into a lot of these categories.
The last thing I'll say is, when we're bringing in summer students, on average, we're bringing in about 60 summer students. This year is a little lower just because of COVID, but what we're seeing now is a representation that's more of a 50-50 in terms of women and men, which is a very strong, positive change. In terms of the old boys' club, I'm not sure if it's an old boys' club or just a lot of people trying to do really good work. I'll leave it at that. Thank you, Madam Chair.