Thanks, Mr. Chair. My question will go to Mr. Kucheran or Mr. Strickland.
Here's a shout-out to building trades members across the country, including my niece Hannah. She has just started her apprenticeship training and is excited to become part of the building trades across the country.
We know that we have the pandemic, but we also have the looming crisis in the background that is the climate crisis. The building trades issued a remarkable landmark report through the Columbia Institute back in 2017, “Jobs for Tomorrow”, about building trades and net zero. You called upon the government to make the investments required to create over a million jobs in that transition to clean energy. To date, we haven't seen the government step up in any meaningful way. This budget was a lost opportunity.
How important is it for the government to work with the building trades in the substantial investments that allow us to create the hundreds of thousands of new jobs that come with transitioning to a clean energy economy?