We find it more and more common. In Nova Scotia we have a very high illiteracy rate. What we find most concerning is that when we lose jobs, when we have shutdowns of employers, factories, or whatever, and they're in that transition period, we discover that we have a lot of workers out there on the shop floor who can't comprehend, number one, from our perspective, our collective agreements and what their rights and benefits are. When you look at it from that perspective, you also realize that on the shop floor they can't read the employer's policies and procedures either. It goes a long way to making us concerned about health and safety in the workplace when you have that low literacy level.
We're continuously out there. We run literacy programs through our union. We have a very progressive program to reach our members. But on the whole, literacy is a problem in Nova Scotia and in Newfoundland and Labrador.