One of the things that is sorely lacking is government funding and support for training, and encouragement for industry to actually put their fair share into training programs in this country. We are woefully lacking on this score when we compare ourselves internationally.
One of the problems in the NAFTA era has been the decline of the social transfers for people who are trying to find their way back into the economy, and trying to find a better economic path for themselves and their children. So if the Canadian government took their policy tools seriously, we could have a much different kind of scenario.