Might I offer just a potential...? It is something that, to me, has been a problem, and I've seen it many times. It is simply a policy.
As an example, if you're located in the city of Kingston and you want to apply for a government job and/or a federal agency job, there's a stipulation that you have to live within so many kilometres. In an urban core, 60, 70, 80, 90, or 100 kilometres is reasonable. In rural areas, that's not reasonable. I know many people who drive 100 to 150 kilometres one way every day to work. Yet now they're excluded from working for the federal government service, simply because that kind of stipulation is in there. So you're definitely excluding many potential capable workers in many rural areas.
Has there been any consideration given to possibly changing that?