Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good evening, Minister. Thank you for being here.
I think we should go back to the business at hand and talk about Bill C-30.
Before we get there, I'd just like to say that Canada is not in a recession. We will have plenty of time to discuss that tomorrow, I believe, with the motion of the Conservative Party. The huge consensus on Bay Street, for example, among economists, is that this is not a recession. In fact, on a per capita basis, GDP was up 0.9% in Q1, but let's go back to Bill C-30.
Let's go back to construction. We talked about that as well. As my colleague Mr. MacDonald mentioned when he was discussing issues with you, Minister, the situation in Canada is different from province to province. Construction is a great example of that. In my own province of Quebec, in fact, construction is doing very well, not just on the residential side but also on the institutional side. We see a lot of projects going on. Hydro-Québec, the provincial utility, is investing heavily in expanding its network. There's a great demand for construction workers.
We understand that in Ontario, there are some specific issues with the high-rise condo market, but in other provinces, there's a great demand for construction workers. Also, there's a lack of skilled labour in construction. That's why we have all of those apprenticeship programs.
You didn't have time before to really explore this, I think, but particularly in construction, on the measures announced in the update, how do you think they will accelerate the pace of training young Canadians to work in construction?