From the construction industry side, as I said, some construction is seasonal. It's not truly a seasonal industry, because sometimes it rolls through, but most owners would like to do their work in the good weather. We have a lot more activity in the good months than we have in the dead of winter. One thing that's very important, that used to be very important to our industry, was those mobility grants that let people travel across the country. They cut all that out. Now if the employer is in desperate need of somebody in Alberta, he winds up having to pay for somebody to move temporarily or whatever.
I guess there are about 2,000 or more people from Cape Breton working in Alberta, and they're there on a rotating basis. They get home for a month or a couple of months here and there to see their families, and the rest of the time they're 3,000 miles away working in Alberta. Any of you MPs who are away from home for a while will understand what it's like to be away from your families.
Another part--and Mr. Hanson will probably speak to this a bit better--is that tourism plays a big role in Cape Breton. That is truly a seasonal business. We're losing people; we're being depopulated as it is. If EI weren't there, the tourism industry really would be in dire straits when trying to get people to work there in peak season.
So I guess that answers some of your questions.