Well, I guess from my perspective the BuildForce Canada model is a model that certainly our industry thinks is ideal for our sector. I'm no expert in all the details of that model, but essentially what happens is that they use an economic model from an economist that they engaged, which builds the information from the regions up.
They will go into British Columbia, Alberta, and different regions and talk to construction owners to get an idea of what the demand is going to be for construction activities over their subject period. They will then talk with the provinces to get data on how many actual construction people are in the occupations they track. They track some 33 occupations, and not just trades but supervisory people as well.
They then test that information against small forums that bring in labour, employers, and the training community, so that they have some way of bouncing it off the people who have the boots on the ground, if you will. Based on that, they create a prognosis, or a projection, provincially, regionally, and nationally, based upon that model. They update it on an annual basis. It does change and can fluctuate. With the size of some of these projects, if a project gets delayed by six months, you can imagine that it's going to have an impact on the demand side.
Now, this is based on the sector council that we put together some time ago. We fund the sector council's infrastructure. It's difficult, I think, for some of the other industry sectors to raise the funds to fund a sector council, but we've been able to get all of the players to the table, including labour and owners, to fund that mechanism, because we all agree that the information derived from that effort is absolutely essential for planning our long-term labour market needs.
I would say to look to the BuildForce Canada model.