The labour market partnership agreements.
Those things are all really important to providing opportunities.
For example, for immigration, we should have a credentials recognition centre in this region of the country, because we don't have one right now. Language training for immigration in P.E.I. is limited to Charlottetown and Summerside. Even the school system is very limited for new immigrants coming into the school system and what they're able to apply for. We say we're going to need new workers. At the same time, we know there are real cutbacks in those areas.
We need to have real strategies for aboriginal workers. They're totally excluded from the workplace across the country. There are some positive opportunities--for example, CUPE is involved with a project with the government and a health region in Saskatchewan, where there are labour force workplace representative agreements within the workplace. But you need support from governments, both federal and provincial, to be able to put those opportunities in place, because they're not going to happen otherwise. Employers in this country are well below the OECD average in terms of training their own workers.
At the same time, we have in Quebec a very positive example of where they have a payroll tax. They say they will tax employers for providing training for the workplaces. All those studies show that investment in those workers contributes very positively to the GDP, the health of the economy, to making sure that we remain vibrant, and making sure we're able to continue to do things we need to do as a country. All the research shows that.