It's a serious question. If you have anything further to say on that, I'd appreciate it.
Mr. Linton, I wish you could come to my riding and I'd take you out to Nisku and we'd do round tables. I say this because in every round table that I do with every size of business, from two people to 2,000, they say to me, “James, we need people.” They bang the table and say, “We need people—skilled, unskilled, all types.” This is an epidemic in western Canada—certainly in my area.
I hear a lot of criticism about what the government is doing. We've done a lot on the apprenticeship side.
But what is your solution then for the people in my riding—the hotels, the restaurants, the large businesses, PCL and others—who say, “We need 20 people”, “We need 75 people”, or “We need 1,000 people, James, in our business today. Do you know anyone?” We have so much poaching going on between various companies.
What is the solution, then? If you don't like what we're doing, what is your solution to that chronic situation in my riding?