First let me address your question on the programs. In the past we've tried the student employment programs. We hire a number of university students. By the way, our minimum wage is $10 an hour for a university student, and our average foreman makes over $20 an hour. I've already given out three gold watches. We've had people for over 20 or 30 years. That's the key, but you've got to train them.
In answer to your question, it's too much trouble to try to get subsidies, more trouble than the money is worth, more administration than it's worth--a frank, candid answer.
With regard to mobility of the workers from Newfoundland, it's interesting that you say that. Our incoming president is from Newfoundland, and he always says to me, “Harold, can I send you a bunch of people to train?” Then he says, “And then send them back, because then they'll be a whole lot better for me.” He's joking, but he's serious at the same time.
The problem is that we've come to the point where we haven't got labour, period, so we're looking wherever we can. We prefer to hire a Canadian first rather than bring in offshore people. If it means hiring people for a shorter period during the summer months, then we would prefer to target areas in Canada that have a higher unemployment rate, and Newfoundland, as you mentioned, is one of the opportunities, as well as some of the other rural areas in Canada that are looking for employees.
Yes, it would be better to find permanent, long-term labour, but the reality is that they're just not there.