With regard to manpower mobility, Ms. Bonsant, we are saying in the first place,that a farm worker who is used to growing potatoes or cherries, cannot become a construction worker. This is impossible, specially in Quebec where everything is legislated wall to wall, as the gentleman explained.
We would rather have geographic mobility. If I am a carpenter in Montreal, I could work in Ottawa and be recognized.
Le me give you an example, because a picture is worth a thousand words, as they say. Maybe seven or eight years ago, we were building the Portage Bridge between Ottawa and Hull—that was the name of the city at the time. There are certainly people here who are familiar with the bridge. Now, this bridge is under two territorial jurisdictions. One part is in Quebec and the other in Ottawa. So they had to count how many carpenters were working on either side of the bridge. It was ridiculous. They were inspectors on both sides. This is the kind of problem that arises with mobility. There is no question of recruiting workers specialized in agriculture to turn them into construction workers or vice versa. This is not done, but something very different is going on.
In fact, we have problems between provinces. It is often easier to work in the United States than in a neighbouring Canadian province. This is ridiculous. These are the points that we are trying to make.