I agree with much of what Mr. Sullivan said, especially with respect to increases in allowable immigration or immigration targets into Canada. We have a regional, geographic, and demographic mismatch with skills, and this is especially striking in the Atlantic region. Different tools are needed over time to address that. Immigration is one long-term mechanism.
When it comes to jobs that don't have people, relaxation with respect to the temporary foreign worker program would help, and I know that the current immigration minister is strongly in favour of tuning that program so it responds better to regional needs with respect to the range of skills covered.
When it comes to the very long-term success in Canada's regions, much of the heavy lifting is needed at the regional and provincial levels, and I'm referring in particular to primary and secondary education. Our rural areas do not meet the education standards that we should be meeting collectively, and we see some of that in the larger centres as well. These are in the provincial domain to address, and they do not need any more money. It's more a matter of curriculum, and when we do a better job at the provincial and regional levels of delivering curriculum, then our public school and post-secondary graduates will be much better placed to take advantage of the jobs that are available and to develop, for instance, their coding skills later on and fare well in the world that we will meet.