It's a great question.
It's just every day. Our annual reviews come every December. We're very committed and loyal to our staff. Employment tenure is probably 25 years, on average, at our company. We have long-term, committed employees.
It's really hard for me. Every year, I want to give back to the employees. We want to try to compensate them, and the conversations are just constantly the same, about how expensive it is to live in Toronto and how expensive it is to live in Canada, to a point where good people, who have been with me for 10 or 15 years, have started to identify whether they can move and transfer to one of our U.S. facilities. The reason they're doing this is that they want to start a family and own a home. It's just not feasible in Canada for most of the youth. All these things are really big, systemic problems.
To put it in perspective, at a facility in Georgia, where we make components, the average person makes $16.50 to $17 U.S. an hour, and house prices are $40,000 to $50,000, so the employer can attract a lot of people. At lower wages, those people can still live, acquire...and do quite well. However, in Canada, when most of your money is going to mortgage debt, living expenses, insurance and all the items I talked about before, the youth of today have no money left over to dream about that next step in their lives.
