I noted from your answers to the written questions under “Other Challenges”...you wrote about youth unemployment. That's something that has rippled through almost all the presentations we've had here. The last presentation was great, speaking very directly to the youth of the north.
Committee members will tell you that I go on and on about the $128 billion infrastructure deficit we have, and how we believe there's a place for the federal government to take a leadership role in that. Coming from a labour background, I talk about craftspeople. If they're working on these jobs and they have apprentices with them, they can give them on-the-job skills training you can't get elsewhere.
Countries like Germany—we had a previous speaker, Ms. Robinson, talking about how it shows, at least I believe, a right mix of public investment with market solutions in a green economy.
What measures do you feel the federal government should take to move Canada more in that direction—the greening of our economy?