Absolutely, MP MacDonald. That's a great question.
The Atlantic pilot project is something we're looking at as a possible path forward for a construction pilot project. I don't really know what the number is in Ontario. I know what the demand is, based on having conversations with various construction industry executives and union leaderships in Ontario. I mentioned earlier that 25,000 alone in Ontario could go to work today. You mentioned 6,000 in Prince Edward Island, because you're going through a housing boom right now. BuildForce Canada indicates that, in the next 10 years, we'll need well over 100,000 workers in Canada to meet the demand and also to close the gap from retirements.
We need a construction immigration pilot project. I don't know what the right number is, but we need to start it in a province where we have the greatest demand right now. We also have to make sure it's achievable. One number we're looking at is 10,000 construction workers for the province of Ontario. [Technical difficulty—Editor] That number would increase and be reflective of the demand in the various provinces.
We need to get beyond our growing reliance on temporary foreign workers. The temporary foreign worker program is not a long-term sustainable solution to our labour market demands in Canada. We also need to encourage more Canadians to get into the construction industry. That's something the government has also put some initiatives on the table for, in terms of apprenticeship services and sectoral initiatives. There is a lot of money coming to help our industry attract more people into the trades. We need more of those kinds of things.