Thank you for the question. It's a very good question.
When I talk about being mobile, I talk about it in three perspectives. One is mobility in Canada, and how we look at accreditation and certification of skilled labourers in Canada from province to province. That is an issue that in part can be addressed through the new Canada free trade agreement. At least, that's where it needs to be discussed.
The second component is very much a Canada-U.S. cross-border mobility issue. For a long time, upwards of 4,000 nurses from Windsor and southwestern Ontario have been commuting across the border every day to work in Detroit and Michigan hospitals. They're a unique class of professional in having that accreditation that enables them to move seamlessly across the border. We need to be doing more of that. If there's high demand in Buffalo or in the greater horseshoe around Toronto for plumbers, welders, pipefitters—you name it— there's no reason we can't be serving each other's economies better by having that skilled labour force moving across the border.
Thirdly, there's the global dimension. As global trade becomes more borderless, so does mobility in terms of people seeking out medium- and long-term work. When we look at the Canada-EU trade agreement or the trans-Pacific partnership agreement, mobility is going to be a key element of looking at our competitive advantage in the long term. It's about how we attract global professionals to work in Canada, but also how we look at Canadians whose talent and services we want to export around the world. There are really three parts to that mobility question.