First, when they come, most of them are already trained. We benefit incredibly because they have been trained in their sending countries, and we assess immigrants on the basis of a point system, as you know, that gives points for their education, among other things.
Several decades ago, Canada could not have survived without apprentices, the construction workers who came from countries in southern Europe, and we are still reaping the benefits of those workers, although most of them are moving out of the workforce now because they are older. Special attention needs to be placed on apprenticeship, but we can't expect to be able to attract the same people we did, especially from southern Europe, because there are now many competitors for their skills, and they don't have the same motivation to leave.
In our point system we clearly need to put a lot more emphasis on apprentices as we move forward, but it's not going to solve all our problems. We also have to make sure that within Canada we put a major emphasis on trying to change attitudes with respect to apprenticeship-- getting more kids into apprenticeship training and encouraging employers to create the spaces that are needed, so we have enough apprentices in the country.