Just another thing, and maybe just as a piece of information that's helpful for all committee members to recognize: I know that there was a suggestion a little bit earlier, and I just don't want to leave people with the impression that if a municipality undertakes a construction project and it's not 100% complete, they're not able to receive any of the government funds. What the government has made clear is that the municipality and the construction companies are able to bill as the project is completed, but that billing will cease and payment will cease after that point in time, after the deadline of March 31, 2011. I just do that for clarification because I know that most members of the committee are familiar with that, and you gentlemen will be familiar with that, but there are other people looking for information from this committee. I just put that on the record so people are not under the illusion that such a thing is taking place.
I appreciate the documentation you brought forward. I think it's very helpful. It indicates that clearly there's a necessity to continue to work to stimulate the economy for tradespeople, but it also indicates that you see an anticipated increase in the employment of tradespeople.
You talk about the drop-off of 2012, and that concerns me and committee members as well. I'm wondering if you might be able to just identify what your association and your groups are doing in considering some of the projects that are currently being announced. I come from Alberta and I look at the Alberta context. I know that some of these large industrial projects that were put on hold or cancelled are now coming back on stream. I think of the Firebag project that was just recently announced, which is billions of dollars in investment and clearly will hire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of tradespeople.
Have those numbers started to come into your calculations, or are those announcements too early or too recent?