I appreciate that. The job market is hot: 652,000 new jobs have been created in the last 22 months, which is an astounding number. As demographics continue to work against us and people continue to retire, there's no reason to believe that we won't see a tremendous demand for workers. That's obviously good news for a lot of folks. In Quebec we see the hottest labour markets in 33 years. The gap between Quebec's labour market and Ontario's is really starting to narrow, so it's very good.
That said, there are challenges, but there are also opportunities. In the forestry sector there are big challenges; on the other hand, the mining sector is demanding new workers, and they've shown a real desire to work with forestry workers to provide them with the training they need to get into that sector, and that's great news.
I'm conscious of the criticism that a lot of the new jobs being created are low-paying service sector jobs, but that's really not the case. In the construction sector and in sectors like trucking and utilities, there has been tremendous job growth across the country, so there really are opportunities today that a generation ago we probably couldn't have imagined.