Thank you very much to my colleague.
I'm from northern Alberta, and I can tell you that I find it very disturbing when I hear cases from Mr. D'Amours and Mr. Lessard in relation to the portion of the population that is unemployed.
I don't understand. When I can't find employees for my own businesses, and nobody in northern Alberta can find employees, so we go across to China, South America, and the United Kingdom and fly these people in by the thousands, which is intended to happen by 2015 or 2020.... Fifty per cent of our workforce there is going to be retired by 2017, and we have people in the rest of Canada who are unemployed.
What are we doing to send them, either temporarily or permanently, across the country instead of around the world, to get them into northern Alberta to keep the economy going and to send money back to the places that need it the most? And I'm not talking about unemployment insurance; I'm talking about good wages, $80,000 or $120,000 a year.