Thank you, Chair. I'm going to try to get my questions out before the stampede of Albertans leaving for Angola happens.
I just want to talk a bit more to Mr. Smillie. We talked about the education aspect of things, and I noticed you referenced places like NAIT and SAIT in Alberta. I used to be a faculty member at Red Deer College. I taught computing systems technology there for a number of years. The entire program component of Red Deer College from when I started in 2000 has completely changed. The trades component of Red Deer College has been absolutely booming. It can't get enough instructors, because the instructors have to come out of the trades themselves in order to teach, so that's an ongoing issue they've had there. So many resources at that college have been repurposed to make changes in their delivery system, and they still can't keep up.
Albertans still can't keep up with the demand for skilled workers. I'm grateful for the 80,000 or so people from across Canada who come to Alberta and are now coming to Saskatchewan and so on. I'm hopeful that Atlantic Canada does have the opportunity to utilize its resources. It's only going to make things even more competitive across Canada, and it's only going to improve conditions for workers, and so on.
But I want to talk about this education thing. In one of my communities, named Breton, where people actually work in the oil field and live where the oil is extracted, a group of concerned people—even the members of the school board, local teachers, and so on—are trying to use the flexibility within the Alberta curriculum to prepare people leaving high school to go right into the oil and gas sector because they know that's where the future lies for them.
Could you elaborate on what your organization might do insofar as partnering with these colleges and technical institutes, whether it's the Alberta teachers or whatever the case might be, dealing with the provincial government to focus the curriculum and prep people for this?