He's no longer working as a journeyman electrician, not that there aren't opportunities there.
I agree with you that in my province, Newfoundland and Labrador, there has been a focus on getting young people into the trades. For the longest time, we didn't encourage young people to look at the trades as a future career. There is an opportunity there, and I think we need to encourage young people to take advantage of it.
I was interested in your remarks about the importance of the stimulus spending. We all know that this deadline of March 31, 2011, is coming up on us. In effect, we've gone through one construction season now, so we're looking at the spring of 2010 as the next opportunity. You talk about the need to continue with stimulus spending, and I know that when the Federation of Canadian Municipalities appeared before us, they too talked about the importance of the stimulus spending and their concerns with respect to that deadline of March 31, 2011.
I don't know if you have seen Minister Flaherty's comments, but apparently his plan is to use a Friday speech to dampen expectations for the 2010 budget. He will try to impress upon Canadians that they shouldn't anticipate another extravaganza of stimulus spending. People shouldn't expect huge amounts on top of the money that's out there, one government official said. I'm quoting from an article that appeared in one of the newspapers. With that information and with the news the Federation of Canadian Municipalities received when they went looking to have the deadline extended, that this is a firm deadline, explain to us the impact this is going to have on the construction industry.