Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to each of you for your words of wisdom today.
Mr. Smillie, just a heads-up, the Department of Finance never likes anything that has what they call a tax expenditure, so that's nothing new, but they also don't have a mandate to consider the positive impact in other areas and that's where we come in. I think what you're proposing has merit in terms of addressing that job skills mismatch and increasing labour market mobility.
I have a question on another area where we have an opportunity and a challenge.
There will be 400,000 young aboriginal and first nations people entering the workforce in the next 10 years. If we've got it right that could be really good for the economy if they had the skills required for jobs today. If we've got it wrong we're in big trouble, and we seem to have it wrong.
Where do the building trades come in in terms of targeting that very vital part of our Canadian population?