Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here.
Ms. Robinson, I'd like to start with you. I want to recount some testimony we had in our natural resources committee last year. We were talking a little bit about the trades. One of the folks from the building and construction trades group was here.
I had just been talking to two young people who had come out of the basic first education part, and they were actually going into the block release. I talked to the president of the New Brunswick Community College about this, and I told her I didn't think we were preparing the students for what they were going to see after, because all of these trades jobs involve moving and going to construction sites. Sometimes they can get plumbing jobs locally, sometimes they can't, whatever it happens to be.
But what I'd like to understand is, what are the schools doing to ensure, for example, that people can go to these places and don't have to come back to their home provinces to do block release training, and then travel back and forth all the time?
He was indicating they were trying to work on that with the schools, but that seems to me to be something we could really do to help the young students.