In terms of the unions, you've done great work as a group, but one of the things we heard from the member for Hamilton was that some of the unions aren't experiencing shortages of labour or personnel and others are experiencing extraordinary ones. In light of the fact that it requires a significant amount of time to get highly skilled tradespeople into the process—apprenticeship alone is not going to meet the needs quickly, and over the short term it's not going to meet the needs quickly—how critical is it for us to reassess our immigration strategies to prioritize, and prioritize in real time, bringing in people with those highly skilled trades and settling them in to the workforce as citizens and permanent residents? How critical is that to making sure the immediate short-term needs of the labour shortages are addressed?
On February 21st, 2019. See this statement in context.