I can tell you this. One of the things that I saw happen was at the time when we knew we were coming into a high period of employment, when we were going to be requiring more people to work in the construction trades, the provincial government of the day walked in and, without any consultation with anybody, essentially kiboshed the entire apprenticeship program, cancelled ITAC, the Industry Training and Apprenticeship Commission, which existed in British Columbia. It's now the ITA, Industry Training Authority. They essentially got rid of the entire system, threw the baby out with the bathwater, without any real road map or idea of what they were going to really replace it with. It has been flying by the seat of its pants. It's taken a couple of years or so, but we're starting to finally get that thing turned around and get back on track, but there's a two-year gap that I see in which we've lost an opportunity to train individuals.
On November 8th, 2006. See this statement in context.