Thank you very much, Chair.
I actually think this is a concept worth exploring. I think it needs to be developed further and put into some further context.
Certainly areas like northern Ontario suffer. We've lost a lot of young people over the last ten years or more as the economy has struggled to stay vibrant and vital. I'm sure it's the same across the country. Those of us who have been given responsibility for leadership in that area look at ways that all of us--and government is the vehicle that we use most often to assist--can somehow put in place those incentives and supports that will encourage our young people to come back once they've been trained or if they have a certain skill set.
I know that the mining industry in northern Ontario is doing really well right now, but they're having a hard time getting miners to come and fulfill the potential that's there for that. I know that when I sit at committees and I listen to the members of the government, and particularly those who come from western Canada, they talk about the oil sands or the tar sands. Which one did we decide was correct? Tar sands?