Thank you, Chair.
Good afternoon to my colleagues.
Minister, thanks for coming back to HUMA. I want to touch on skills training and apprenticeship. We've clearly heard from several witnesses that skills training and apprenticeships are key in the care economy to help address labour shortages.
My riding of Saint John—Rothesay is a union-based riding. J.D. Irving alone is looking for 3,500 more workers in the next two or three years just in Saint John—Rothesay. I know in previous testimony you talked about apprenticeship and training. Certainly we've had some wonderful UTIP announcements, with IBEW, ILA and Heat and Frost Insulators. It's key. It's key to training people. I just want to know if you could elaborate on that and some of the programs you're working on pertaining to skills training and apprenticeships.