Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to the committee, Mr. Smillie. I'm repeating that again.
I'm going to build on something Mr. Calkins was asking a little while ago in terms of training. We've made some investments in the Red Seal program to elevate the status to being equivalent to the university or college-based recognition programs. We're seeing that across the north. I'm from the Yukon. Yukon College is doing a lot of work around the Centre for Northern Innovation in Mining. A lot of the workers there are realizing that there are opportunities in Fort McMurray and in Northern British Columbia. I know it's been said that when you're flying in a plane now, you're likely sitting beside someone in the trades going to find work. We certainly see that in the Yukon.
We've touched on it a bit, but how adaptable is the workforce in terms of getting that training at those colleges and then being able to deploy that across a wide spectrum of jobs? How important is that to an economy that can, not necessarily boom or bust as we've heard it described, but certainly fluctuate at times, in which there are highs and lows. Sometimes those are seasonal highs and lows or monthly highs and lows and not necessarily decades of highs and lows. Could you maybe touch on a little bit of that?