The answer is yes, we do. And they're not only going to the oil industry, which is the big assumption, they're going to the trucking industry and they're going to the automotive industry. In the last two years, our organization has gone over to Germany to recruit mechanics to bring them over to fill the void. The bottom line is that we're not getting enough people into the industry. We've seen colleges like Olds College and SIAST in Saskatoon cut back the number of spaces for mechanics, which is our biggest need. They're cutting back the spaces because the demand just isn't there.
We're trying our best, through our charitable foundation, to get scholarships to get people into the industry. We're going overseas. Our salaries have come up. But at the end of the day, it's the farmer and customer who pay, through the labour rate that we charge.
Everything we're doing is like a shotgun approach, so we're looking for the one magic bullet that's going to solve our technician shortage. We can't find it. We looked inward and decided that if we pay our people more, our chances of keeping them are going to be better. We've seen salaries increase as high as 30% to 40% in the last two years.