My son has a Red Seal, too, by the way, in carpentry, so I'm very aware of the Red Seal program.
The community colleges have done an amazing job in this country. They're one of the great unsung heroes, and we should be celebrating them. Unfortunately, in the last 30 years, as you know, I think we've oversold, and guidance counsellors across Canada have oversold, the dream of university. I believe strongly in university, but we don't need everybody to go to university.
To your point, very quickly, yes, we do need retraining. We need a lot more targeting. Instead of just saying, “Look, we're going to put you on income support”—whether we call it “social assistance” or “unemployment insurance”, I'm not getting hung up on the labels—we need to point out to people, and governments have to do a better job of saying, “Look, we have a million vacancies.”
I don't just mean in restaurants. My own brother is a contractor, and he said that his biggest problem is not taxes; he can't find workers to work for him in his business. We have a problem.