I'm not certain that I fully understand your question, but let me comment on what I said.
This comes as no surprise to anyone, because I think it's also true in many other provinces, but we lack a coordinating strategic body in Saskatchewan to help us plan the supply and demand issues for our labour market. Our training institutions, right from the primary, through the secondary, to the post-secondary levels, to the trades and training organizations, have operated in a manner that has not been entirely well coordinated, and I think that's typical of other jurisdictions too.
We've really had no effective strategy for how industry, in particular, is going to lead. As Mr. McKinlay said, to give an example, industry has been saying to government that there is an enormous shortage of trades in the home building industry. How are we going to reconcile the need to train people through the existing system of training for skilled trades and our apparent lack of the ability to produce those in the right place at the right time?
I'm not saying to you that Saskatchewan's advanced education and employment are not dealing with this. They are, and one of the strategic outcomes of that is to develop a new Saskatchewan labour market commission. I think that view is supported by not only the Government of Saskatchewan, but by opposition parties. So there's some cohesion around that idea. That's really what I meant by a lack of strategy.
Alberta, for example, within the last year has completed a strategic plan for its labour market and has gone out to stakeholders all over the province. I saw an input from them and talked to them about the strategic plan that the government developed. Saskatchewan is now in the throes of doing that, from what I understand from speaking with senior government officials about it. So part of that is the concept I'm promoting, along with the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce and the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, in a document I tabled with you earlier about our strategic Saskatchewan labour market commission organization.
I hope I've answered your question.