Thank you.
In terms of community health centres' importance in rural ridings—for instance, the Hants Shore health clinic in my community—and their impact, particularly with an aging population in rural communities, in terms of the difficulty in maintaining and retaining doctors and nurses, these health clinics are critically important.
I'd like to start on the whole issue of training and learning, Mr. Knight, and this emergence of jobs without people and people without jobs, and that skills gap in Canada. It's not unique to Canada. I was at a Latin American conference last spring in Mexico. One of the ministers from Brazil was talking about the need to restore the honour of skilled trades. I thought to myself, well, that's something that really applies in Canada too. Somehow over the 20 or 30 years there seems to have been a diminution in the respect paid to skilled trades. Everyone is put on this track to universities, and in some cases community colleges, and there's been a trend away from the skills that we really need today.
If you look at what Germany has done, at the success of Germany, not only in terms of productivity but also in terms of such things as income inequality—there is less income inequality in Germany, and they have a productive and robust economy. Do we need a national learning strategy working with the provinces, not imposing on the provinces, but working with the provinces, to develop approaches?
You mentioned the interjurisdictional barriers. Is there a need for a national strategy, with a goal, among other things, of restoring the honour of skilled trades and building a national lifelong learning strategy?