Yes, the undocumented worker situation is really not an issue where we live in Newfoundland, or on the east coast for that matter. We see that as kind of regionalized to cities like Toronto or Vancouver or places like that. There's obviously not a lot of undocumented workers running around in any numbers anywhere else, other than these cities. That's the reason we've really never addressed that from a construction perspective. They're just not there. These people don't exist.
Now if you ask whether they could be here in the future, well, we don't know that. There's a bit of an issue here in the non-union sector where they can't hire our workers. We have 500 electricians unemployed at the hall. Their wages and their collective agreement bring them up to $35 or $40 an hour, total package. Well, a non-union contractor is looking for $15-an-hour people or $12-an-hour people. There are none of those $12 or $15 people out there right now. If they were out there--those who used to do that work--they've gone to Alberta to do that work anyway, where they can make the $40. So that kind of thing is not there.
We've really never dealt with this undocumented thing that much. Maybe it's in the bigger centres like Toronto and places like that. To say whether it should be legalized or shouldn't, I'd have to do some more research into that, to get a better handle on the situation. I read it as people coming into Toronto to do drywall taping in homes and apartment buildings and things like that. So I don't really see it as a major issue in the construction industry down here.