Honestly, Brian, my pitch for the last six or seven years has been, give us a grubstake so we can get the guy to work. That didn't go over very well with the last three governments, so I changed tack a little bit and said, let's try the tax credit idea.
You're exactly right: the guy in Corner Brook who was going to go work on the shutdown has run out of pogey and needs a grubstake to get him there. In some cases, the local union will give him enough money and he'll pay it back when he comes in, or he gets it from Aunt Susie or somewhere. Among our skilled trades what we're really doing is creating a system of applied begging, and I don't think that's appropriate.
I mean, if I were king, I would let people have a tax credit net of what the employer has paid—that came out of their own pocket—and if someone needs $1,000 or $2,000 to get to the job, I'd do that.