It's tough to just pick one.
We appreciate you being here today and your frank conversations with us.
About the SMEs around the steel and aluminum, I know that you're aware of it, Mr. Halucha, but we really need to support our SMEs. In Ottawa last week, we had a company's shop close that had been here since 1975 with 160 workers. We really have to be able to address this. Otherwise, we're just going to continue to bleed jobs out of the country. It's an emergency situation.
I think that the skills gap is also something that we really need to address. I know that there are multiple ways that is being looked at, but we need to support our SMEs. There's a massive disconnect. They cannot find people to work, whether it's agriculture, manufacturing, rural or urban. Wherever you are, the skills gap exists across our country and the education system isn't matching the jobs of the future.
Last, to pick up on the thread of my colleague, there were 187 new MPs, of which I was one. Many of us on the committee were who were elected in 2015. I would like to see the trade commissioner service, and perhaps your departments, put on a training about trade because we are the front-line people out in our communities, with whom these businesses are speaking. They're coming for answers. We all represent very different makeups of what types of SMEs exist in our ridings. I believe that we're one of your greatest assets out there because we're on the ground. If you could provide some type of training for us, I think that would be outstanding and I think a lot of MPs would take advantage of that opportunity.