You know, I hear a lot about this. There are meetings happening. Work is being done and we're all trying to get it together, but it just seems frustrating that this hasn't moved more quickly. I'm not blaming the existing government. It is a multi-jurisdictional problem, principally or mostly in the provincial jurisdiction, but you do have a national association here.
I wonder if the solution isn't to get to a skills-based licensing system rather than a process-based licensing system. What I mean is that if someone can do the job and they can prove through rigorous testing that they can do the job, do we really need to go around the entire world and try to accredit every single educational institution that exists on planet Earth in order to determine which ones match our standards and which don't?
I mentioned Gujarat because I actually have a former constituent who has a low-wage job as a technician when he's pretty much qualified to be a mechanic. He should be making three or four times what he is making, but because of a bureaucratic obstacle, he's not a licensed mechanic.
Why can't we license people based on their abilities rather than have all these bureaucratic processes?