Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to talk for a few minutes about the training and retraining piece of this announcement. On Tuesday the minister spoke of this: she suggested that maybe some of the steelworkers in the Soo who are losing their jobs might become health care workers. It's difficult in some instances to imagine how that might happen, particularly when you consider the framework within which that is expected to happen.
I'd like you to explain to me, first of all, what you mean by long-tenured workers. You're talking about pilot projects--how many of them? Given that they have to be done in collaboration with the provinces and territories, how quickly do you think you'll have that up and running? We've lost 270 steelworker jobs in the last month in Sault Ste. Marie.
The next question was asked of me in my pre-budget consultation that I did. If somebody decides they want to go to university, for example, nursing programs in Ontario are university degree programs. So if steelworkers want to become nurses, they need to go back to university. From what I gather here, there's up to two years of support now for a recipient of EI.