Right now when we think about the government's investments in infrastructure, we tend to think about the deficits we have around bridges, sewers, and other kinds of hard infrastructure. What we're suggesting is that we also think about that infrastructure from a social point of view.
Community hubs are essentially community centres where agencies and various programs can come together and, in a one-stop shop format, provide opportunities for people to come in and get help with child care, employment services, and primary health care, with all of those under one roof. Building these requires an investment. We believe that investment is just as important as an investment in bridges, sewers, and other hard infrastructure, because what you're doing is essentially building a way to provide people with direct services and opportunities.
The other one is around community benefits. If the federal government is going to invest a dollar in terms of building these very same things, it could also think about how we can get this dollar to be spun to provide opportunities for those who are furthest from the labour market. We know that in the trades and in construction there is going to be a high demand—and a growing high demand—for building all the things that we need to build. There are really two approaches to this. We can continue to import foreign-trained professionals and to do temporary foreign worker programs to fill labour force needs, or we can look at the population that's sitting right in our back yard and is not being maximized, and at how it is that we engage in partnerships to give those people opportunities.