That reminds me of when I visited IMO Foods. When I was the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and went to the Boston seafood show, I saw some of the most modern equipment. It takes highly trained people to maintain and operate that equipment these days, which changes things.
This brings me to the question of what emphasis should the Government of Canada be putting on the issue of providing training for higher skills and what emphasis should it be putting on basic education? In other words, we have a lot of people on the margins. Among certain groups in our country, we have large numbers of people who have difficulty with basic education, literacy, numeracy, and so forth. What emphasis should the Government of Canada be putting on that group of people, versus those who are ready for higher skills training? It seems to me that we have fewer and fewer of those. If they are ready, they are doing it and they're probably employed, especially in Alberta.
Speaking of the Yarmouth area, my colleague Robert Thibault spoke to me recently about how AF Theriault & Son, which is a major shipbuilder in that area, lost twenty welders to Alberta and now has to train carpenters to be welders.