Mr. Willis, from the chamber's perspective, although I know you're here at the national level, I'd like to ask you a little bit about labour. I understand the notion of creating value-added jobs. There are tremendous examples of value-added jobs in my constituency in central Alberta, with the ethylene plants there and the jobs they have created, but not every drop of natural gas liquids is stripped off in order to produce commodities that are needed there.
I'm an Alberta MP, and the biggest problem I'm met with by employers is labour. It's fine to say that we can create value-added jobs up the chain through implementing some policy or whatever the case might be, but at the end of the day, is there really anybody able to come and work? In Alberta, one of the biggest imports we have is labour from outside Alberta to come and do this work. There aren't enough people now to do the work that we have slated in Alberta, and that's just on the extraction and the pipeline side, without counting the value-added side.
Mr. Willis, do you have anything that could help me as an Alberta MP or help this committee understand the labour shortage? We're facing a labour shortage and we're talking about creating jobs. Alberta has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.