Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am the MP for St. John's South—Mount Pearl in Newfoundland and Labrador, so my question has to do with the megaproject of Muskrat Falls.
Ms. Branigan, you mentioned how the electricity industry employs 108,000 highly skilled workers and that we need to recruit another 45,000 new workers by 2016. That's a lot of people. We have aging infrastructure.
Mr. Burpee, you talk about expectations of 156,000 construction trades jobs each year for the next 20 years. At the same time we have baby boomer retirements. In Labrador we have a project that is worth more than $7 billion. We have direct and indirect employment of 18,400 person-years in Newfoundland and Labrador. Across Canada, on the person-years of employment, the expectations are over 47,000 person-years. The peak employment during the construction phase in 2013 is 2,700 jobs.
To get right to the point, we have a megaproject in Labrador at Muskrat Falls. We also have the construction of the power line across the Cabot Strait, from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia. Do we have the workforce to build the project and to keep it running? Do you see any red flags?