Thank you for the question. I'll take a shot at it.
You're exactly right. The labour market recovery has exceeded expectations on all sorts of labour market metrics, whether it be employment creation, hours worked or participation rate. We're completely outperforming where we thought we'd be six or 12 months ago.
It's exacerbated into some of these labour markets shortages that we're seeing on a pan-Canadian basis. The government has made efforts on two fronts really: pure labour supply, which is how many hours are worked in the economy, and then addressing elements of skills matching and skill shortages in certain areas.
In labour supply, there are a couple of things. One is that the government made a huge effort in moving forward to implement the national early learning and child care program last year, which would hopefully catalyze the participation of new parents into the workforce. Likewise, there is a pretty ambitious immigration program as well, which brings new workers into the country. Again, that's just from a pure labour supply perspective.
On skills, it's a combination of skills training programs, sectoral support programs that were announced in the last budget, foreign credentials recognition and temporary foreign workers, which I know straddles both labour supply and skills matching. There have been a number of initiatives to advance on both of those streams.