As I've said, not only is there an acute shortage in the video game industry, but there is also a shortage, as I mentioned, across the IT sector in Canada, and that, frankly, blows me away, because I hear from the....
For example, farmers tell me that for jobs that were done at harvest time by young Canadians—perhaps when you and I were in high school or college, when people our age would go out and work on farms in the summer and fall and make decent money—now they cannot get young Canadians to do that work. One orchard farmer in B.C. told me that if the job doesn't involve an air-conditioned office and a computer, forget about trying to get a young Canadian to do it these days.
You would think, then, drawing from that sort of anecdotal assessment, that young Canadians would be rushing to get into these high-paying IT jobs, but they're not. There's a shortage of them, and I can't account for that.
I think there really is need for some fundamental rethinking at the provincial level about how we're preparing young people for the labour markets of the future, and this includes IT.