I think there are a couple of threads there. It's incredible that Canada is a destination for the best and the brightest from around the world, who are choosing to come here and to be educated here and to live and raise their families here. But we also need to provide the supply of housing so that those people can be homed and achieve that great Canadian dream of home ownership and be able to settle into their community and thrive.
In terms of the employment opportunities, there are tremendous opportunities in the industry. If you look at previous waves of immigration, you see that much of southern Ontario, in particular, was built by Italian, Portuguese and Polish immigrants, and a lot of eastern European immigrants in previous decades. But there is a shift in where our immigration is coming from, and in some of the countries that people are coming to Canada from there's not as much of a propensity to enter into the construction sector. I think it's important that the federal government focus on attracting skilled workers who already have those certificates, whether it's, again, plumbers, electricians and some of those skilled trades we so desperately need.
We spent a lot of time in the past pushing the knowledge-based economy, which is fantastic. Canadians are very well educated, and I think we need to try to focus a bit more on bringing people into Canada who can do the jobs that we having such desperate trouble filling or getting young Canadians to pursue.
I would add that these jobs are highly skilled. This is not general labour. The economic immigrants bring talent and innovation and financial investments to Canada, so we'd certainly like a focus on the federal skilled worker program. Let's enhance and focus on skilled workers, because we need them in Hamilton, we need them in Ontario and we need them across Canada.