Thank you very much.
Mr. Shory, you would certainly be aware that in your province, for example, where the economy is red-hot, there is a range of shortages, both high-skilled and low-skilled. To give you an example from tourism, you have several locations across the province of Alberta where you might have a Tim Hortons that has to close at 6:00 p.m. because it can't find workers to work there, or there may be hotels that can't use all of their rooms because they don't have enough staff to work those rooms. There is a considerable shortage of people in lower-skilled areas.
I think what we're trying to do is match people up better. The temporary foreign worker program, for example, has provided some relief in that area, and certainly mobility across the country. One of the things we should be looking at, in terms of temporary foreign workers, is ensuring that lower-skilled workers can come under those programs, especially the provincial nominee program, which tends to focus on higher-skilled workers.
I don't want to suggest that we don't want to encourage everybody to have higher levels of literacy and essential skills. As my colleague was mentioning, there are really very few jobs left in which people can operate without a decent level of literacy because of everything from having to read a safety notice to having to record by computer a lot of different things that people work at. Regardless of where you are in the system, I think people need to have some basic level of literacy and computer literacy.