Generally speaking, I think Blair raised the issue. The demographics are such that we find there are particular needs in various skills and trades, and we find in Alberta that with a booming economy it requires a certain type of people. It seems anybody I might talk to, whether it's truckers, welders, or any group, they find it difficult to acquire people.
I know it's a balance in the sense that we want to be sure we use our Canadian workers that are able to fit the bill, but many times they're not able to find that. Human Resources and Social Development has been doing studies, and if the trend continues to show that there will be shortfalls in all of these areas, it's something we may need to address more specifically.
Yet in the current system of points scoring, we find a lot of qualified people coming into our country who aren't necessarily matched to a particular job waiting for them, resulting in a certain element of frustration. Some of that is credentialling, it's true, but some of that is because they're not being matched up to what our country needs. In the one case we have people coming in, in a significant flow, but no place to place them. Then we have needs, but we don't have people to fill them.
I'm not sure if the provincial nominee program is the type of program we can look to, or whether there's something that can be done within the system itself to say that we should attempt to meet the needs we have through some other systematic means. I'm not sure if you have any thoughts on that or if there are any points you'd like to make.