That's a great question. It's a very important issue to skilled trades workers across Canada.
We're not asking for any treatment different from what other workers have under the Income Tax Act. Right now, many workers are able to deduct travel costs, accommodation costs, [Technical difficulty—Editor] covered by their employer. We're asking for the same treatment.
That will help labour availability. Often, there are jobs within or outside of a province, or from a rural to an urban area. A worker could be collecting employment insurance; they don't want to incur the cost of travelling over 200 kilometres to go back and forth to work. It's more to their economic advantage to stay at home and collect EI. We think that by putting in this skilled trades workforce tax deduction, it will encourage labour mobility across the country.
That's something that needs to be addressed, as well: shortages and how we deal with them on a short-term and long-term basis, and labour availability and how we can move our labour pool across Canada. That's very important for construction workers.