I'll take a stab at that first, and Michelle, please feel free to jump in as well.
We'd be happy to provide the committee with our latest “Ontario Economic Report”, which provides a sector-by-sector breakdown of labour shortages within the province, both by sector and more specifically by region beyond that as well.
Unfortunately, it's not a very tight answer, because what we're experiencing is that certainly some of the usual suspects are disproportionately being affected by skilled trades, such as construction sectors or anything that has required hand-to-hand contact in the service industry, including restaurants, food and accommodations. These industries are being disproportionately impacted by it. We do have a report that outlines this, and we would be happy to provide that to the committee.
As a few points on the solution front, number one, I think, is appreciating that there isn't going to be a one-size-fits-all approach, as we're finding out here. Labour strategies that are going to address this need to be sector-specific and also, ideally, regionally targeted.
Certainly a number of the training and retraining programs that both the provincial and federal governments have rolled out have been enormously helpful. The tax credits for on-the-job training are particularly helpful for those smaller organizations that might not be able to compete with larger multinational firms in terms of talent attraction and retraining.
Also, we need to be amenable to a constant feedback loop. We're at a time right now in which a number of the federal government's supports are being wound down, so it's important for us to take stock of which programs have been the most helpful in filling some of these talent gaps and perhaps double down on them in a thoughtful way that addresses the unique concerns of sector A versus sector B. Talent attraction might look very different in each, and, therefore, the solution is going to look very different for those sectors.