Thank you. I'm so used to these guys taking good care of us, as they always do....
As for my excitement, normally in the five minutes I don't have enough time to ask questions of all the people I want to, but I'm going to get a second round, so brace yourselves.
Ms. Kozak, I found your presentation dead-on in many ways. New Democrats have believed for a long time that it's time for our government to invest, and in the exact areas you're talking about: in things that will lift people out of poverty but also will give hope to our young people.
I have to quibble a little bit with you, though. You were talking about modulizing training, or in other words, lifting out a particular component of a craftsperson's job and training young people to do it. I think it's really important for our training of young people that they get fully trained to the journeyman's status. If we can get apprenticeship programs going so they do a certain portion in the beginning and then become valuable to the company, then the government can help take them all the way to being a full journeyman.
We've spoken here many times about what they call the Red Seal program, where from coast to coast you can say that a tradesman from Newfoundland will be as qualified as anyone anywhere in the country. To get our workforce to that level is an advantage both for the people, obviously, but for business, because we have a very serious problem of employment coming and I think that matches up with what you were saying.
We've talked, too, about the need for the government to invest in infrastructure now, but I'll leave that.
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