I don't think there is one silver bullet in any of this. I think there need to be changes made in a variety of policies, both federal and provincial, to help in that regard.
One of the things we really do believe strongly, though, is that small firms that do a ton of on-the-job work-hardening skills training for employees need to be supported. We have all sorts of government support programs for university education, post-secondary education, but those skills that are learned in that job at the pizza place when you are 15 or 16.... If we can provide small firms with a lower rate of EI in order to recognize their investments in that initial training for Canadian employees, we think we will be better off.
That is why we have pitched the idea that, if employers generally pay 1.4 times what an employee does, maybe for small businesses up to the first half a million in payroll, it's 1.2 times.
A training tax credit is another way of accomplishing the same goal.