Thank you very much.
Mr. Griffith, Diana MacKay, from the Conference Board of Canada, recently said this about the EOI system:
The introduction of the Expression of Interest system represents an important opportunity for employers needing people with advanced skills and for communities seeking to attract new citizens to access—quickly and at low cost—the full pool of 250,000 newcomers to Canada each year. If employers take up the opportunity, the new system will dramatically improve Canada's competitiveness.
That's what she said.
Since the engineering sector is an incredibly highly skilled sector that has a need for employees, let me digress a little bit by saying that this past summer I attended a round table discussion in Edmonton with the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. We heard a lot about acute labour needs in that region of the country. There was one company there that said that if they could find them they would hire 1,500 engineers the next day. They simply could not find them.
Can you comment on how this program will specifically benefit the engineering sector in Canada?