Each of the community colleges works at several levels. One is that we take a look at the federal priorities for economic development. Then when we do our strategic planning, each community college looks at the economic development strategy of the province, and each province has identified certain sectors. Our province has identified four, and we are providing training in those four areas, plus at a much more micro level we work with local business and industry.
So there is a good alignment. The issue we have is that as industry's needs change, we need to mobilize the workforce to get in sync with it. That's the challenge and that's where the gap is. You have people without jobs, and some of them are skilled but some of them aren't skilled. So that's where the colleges can step in.
If I may, I have one other quick comment, Mr. Chair. Infrastructure money was great, but one of the things we have to be sensitive to, and it was in one of our recommendations, is the CST, the transfer envelope. It's great to have new buildings, but we have to have the operating budget to support them. I think that's very important. In our second recommendation we ask that there be a separate envelope, just as with the health accord, where there will be accountability measures but there will be opportunities to see funds go to post-secondary, be directed so that we don't end up being misguided.