The labour shortage--the looming labour shortage, the present labour shortage, however you look at it--is a problem not just for manufacturing; it's a problem everywhere. It's a problem just about everywhere you go.
One of the things I've noticed in recent years is how universities have really started to make significant gains based on the high level of federal investment that was made in roughly the past decade or so, which in certain areas really brought the cream of the crop to the top in areas where universities are developing specialty labs and that kind of thing. There isn't a nearer program for what you would call blue collar work. Kids coming out of college in trades and so forth don't have that level of high-level support, and I think it's something that could be looked into. It's almost an opportune moment to really look at this, because the payback on something like this, as we've seen with the universities, is that it takes almost a generation for things like this to get up and running and to see the results, like the level of PhD candidates who are being produced in Canada now versus 10 years ago when the investment in these programs was less.
The second thing I would say, and this is a society-wide problem, is that there is a level of disconnect between Canadian youth and Canadian society in a lot of areas. With the needs that our society and economy have, to see the level of kids dropping out of high school today is incredible really. There is something, and I don't know what it is, that is driving kids away from participating and contributing to society. I know this is a problem that's been around for years and years, but it doesn't make it less of a problem.