At the end of the day, for any immigration program to work, the business community will have to be part of it and will have to be the main one pushing for it. Employers are the business community. In what we've done in Nova Scotia, I believe we were successful in promoting the programs that we were able to initiate ourselves as a province. Also, when the Atlantic pilot program came in, we promoted it within the business community and it's working very well.
You see, employers don't always know what's available to them. They know they have gaps or they have shortages, but they don't know what's available to them. That's what we're doing more and more in Nova Scotia. We're promoting the programs. For example, me and my co-chair, Dr. Colin Dodds, we're going out there and we're meeting face to face with the stakeholders. We have at least two or three meetings a month with different business groups to explain what's available. That's why you see the success rate from the business community using the immigration programs, and that's why we want to make sure we keep them.