Thank you.
If workplace practice is a priority, should we be having that as the number one barrier to employability, as opposed to some of the other barriers that have been mentioned? Is this an important one?
I also wanted to ask a few questions about the actual part that the federal and provincial recognition of credentials plays. As you know, this is a huge problem in the federal government in our goal to try to recognize credentials, because of the governing bodies and the provinces again.
Geoff asked a good question about the provincial and federal bodies. It's very difficult to get the provinces to go on board. How do you do that if ten provinces and three territories don't really agree on where the federal government should be? Then you put in those who have to recognize credentials. Right now we have some success with the Red Seal program for recognizing trades. That's been helpful, but there are many more out there--about 200.
I'd like to also pose this question to you. How are we going to get these trades and skills recognized when everybody has found this difficulty? There are perhaps 400 different governing bodies across the country. How do you bully the provinces? How do you bully these people into recognizing credentials?