This is to the Canadian Home Builders' Association.
I live in an oasis. I'm from York region. It's busy. The builders are very busy there. The problem is that there are not enough tradespeople. This is like that catch-22 situation. We don't have enough tradespeople, but we have people who aren't working. Even with the folks in Alberta who unfortunately have lost their jobs, the folks who are returning to Ontario aren't even sufficient. You're not just going to move from Alberta to Ontario and resettle, because there's a little discrepancy there. It's very expensive to move into York region and some places in Toronto.
I've been pushing in terms of how we get more people, more young people into the trades. The term I once heard was “parity of esteem”, if I can use that.
Are there any pilot projects that we can advocate for or latch on to? I think in the next 10 years, maybe even less.... I have great relationships with both the builders and the unions, and I hear it from both sides, that in the next years we're going to lose a wealth of experience. It's like losing that senior management but you have no middle managers coming up the ranks who are learning. We need to do something about it.
I know this is provincial-federal combined, but there has to be something we can do.
Could you spend 20 seconds on that?