I agree 100%. I would also say to you that this gets into some of the underemployment among our youth in different parts of the country, or even other Canadians. Why do we have 1.2 million working-age Canadians on the unemployment roll when we have so many jobs that are available? We have to look at that.
The other thing we have to remind ourselves of is that $3 billion of funding for skills training and retraining goes from the federal government down to the provincial governments. How do we make sure that we are providing the right oversight and we're all working in concert for that? We often talk about the skills and labour needs. We talk about immigrants. To me, it's as important to make sure that our youth and Canadians also have access to some of the best jobs that are out there. I wanted to talk about that.
The second thing is that I love your idea about the national trade corridor. Everybody on this committee knows that I'm very big on really tackling interprovincial trade barriers. I really liked what Mr. Davidson talked about, a public registry, which is critical. That also came out from Alex from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. I think it's critical for us to do this. It's almost embarrassing that we have probably thousands of interprovincial trade barriers that don't allow our businesses to prosper.
Perhaps I can get a bit of a comment from you, Mr. Strain, on whether you also agree with the registry idea. Do you have anything more you'd be able to add around those interprovincial trade barriers?