Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our witnesses.
Ms. Yalnizyan, you made a comment that I think deserves to be picked up on, and that is the idea of reserving a portion of the jobs—actually, you said one-fifth of the jobs—on new infrastructure builds for youth employment or new workers. I think that actually has some merit. I think 20% might be high, and you'd have to work with companies and unions and workers to try to have some kind of a ratio in there, but it is a lot of government money. Whether it's public-private partnerships, or P3, it's still government money, so I think that is not a bad idea. I just wanted to make that comment.
My question is for Mr. Antunes and Ms. Schirle. I thought Mr. Brison would actually bring it up, because we both represent rural ridings in Nova Scotia. We both have a fair number of foreign workers who come in to do.... I think we do a disservice, quite frankly, by calling them “unskilled” jobs. Farm labour, agriculture jobs, Christmas tree industry jobs need a fair amount of skill, but you simply cannot fill those jobs with young people today. I think part of it is attitudinal. They think that job is somehow beneath them. I don't know how we change that.
I'd like to hear a recommendation.