Yes, that's a great point.
Dana actually touched a bit upon this in terms of the digital nomad strategy, which is very important.
There's a growing number of gig workers in Canada, and I don't think we've created an environment in which they can actually be gainfully employed or that they can find an environment in which they can really carry out their business or their work in a place where they get paid fairly and have a good work experience. This is something that needs to be addressed. Plus there are a lot of employees here in Windsor-Essex who have moved to this region postpandemic because it's still a great place in terms of cost of living. They don't work in the Windsor-Essex area; they work across the border; they work in Toronto, and they work in other places, as far away as California.
We need to find a way to retain them and to attract more. The provinces and the states on the other side of the border are also doing their best to lure them.
So, yes, we need to have a strategy on how to retain them and create an environment that better suits them. We also need to find a way to bring the right kind of people and match the needs of the employers to the people who are coming in. One of the ways to do that is through the municipal nominee program that my chamber of commerce is spearheading here. That would be a very laser-focused approach to identifying the needs locally and filling the demands locally, rather than that being dealt with at the federal level where it could be hit and miss.
Those are some of the opportunities that I think we have not leveraged.
Then finally there are the temporary foreign workers. Again, we do a good job of bringing them here but the path to residency is very difficult for them. We end up not retaining a lot of them, and I think they have a lot of challenges while they're here in Canada.