Thank you, witnesses, for being here.
You stole my opening remarks, in that I was going to give away my age here. When I was in elementary school in the sixties, we went to “shop” in grades 7 and 8. The males went to shop and the females went to home economics. Maybe that was something we have advanced from. Then in high school, one wing of the high school was for shops and trades.
Today in Ontario, I think there are very few curriculum options for students to get into the trades. As we know, this is provincial jurisdiction, though I'm not trying to say there isn't federal responsibility here. This leads to my question on the extent that you can get involved in solving this on a long-term basis. You talked about the need to have it start early in an individual's life, if that person has an aptitude. Can you tell me what kinds of things you're communicating to the Government of Ontario, the Government of British Columbia, the Government of Alberta, and so forth, across the country?