I represent a very rural riding, which includes a municipality of 112 inhabitants, who live an hour and a quarter from the largest town, which has 6,700 inhabitants.
One thing shocks me a great deal. Every time I go into big cities, I get the feeling you always want to empty the countryside in order to fill up the cities. It's true that there are people between 45 and 55 years of age who lose their jobs and who have spent their lives in their rural community. Do you sincerely believe they want to leave everything and leave rural Quebec to go to Alberta for one year, two years or three years? No.
Messrs. Deenen and Santacruz, I'm going to ask you a question. In Quebec, we have a training school called CRIFA. It's a school specialized in agriculture, nursery work, landscaping and so on. I want to know whether that exists outside Quebec. That's a somewhat odd question, but I want to know whether you have similar schools. If so, do you recruit at those schools?
Furthermore, if there are schools, are they far from the city? Are they in rural areas? Are young people ready to move?
Apart from that, in Quebec, in the employment insurance field, we have a system that's called Emploi-Québec. Employment insurance claimants go to this centre, where positions are always posted. Emploi-Québec pays for training for those who want to change careers.
I want you to tell me especially about your nursery system. One of my friends has one. Physically, it's very tough, and I admire her, because I wouldn't do that. I don't think someone 62 years of age can start planting very heavy trees. You have to be very solid physically and very strong to be able to work in that field. It's very tough.
I don't know whether I've asked too many questions. I await your answers.