Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Another excellent challenge we would love to face is that kind of increase. What you're talking about is an opportunity for us to start planning for that right now. For example, the west-east pipeline is expected to be in production in 2018, so we have between now and 2018 to have that planning phase. We can work with all levels of government so that if we have a huge expansion of our existing refinery, for example, we can plan how that is going to work out.
I mentioned the unemployment rate. There is already a significant gap between the unemployment rate in New Brunswick, in Atlantic Canada generally, and in the rest of the country. There are many thousands more unemployed per capita in New Brunswick than there are any place in the rest of Canada, and it's always been that way. It's just historically how it's been, in part, I suppose because we haven't had those same opportunities. We know the workforce is there. We know the bodies are there. The training is vital, and we would certainly welcome the opportunity to pull back some of the folks from western Canada.
We know that New Brunswickers will come home. Even if they're not getting paid quite the same amount, they'll come back to New Brunswick, and we'll leave it to the Alberta-based places to make sure that maybe they have to hire some more.
In terms of the immigration side, Saint John, in particular, is a very welcoming place for immigrants. We have a number of immigrant resettlement programs and English as a second language programs. We have a university that participates in that, and our YMCA does that. So it's the kind of community that is already welcoming. We have a significant Korean population and Chinese population. We have folks from all over the globe calling Saint John home, and we'd welcome more immediately.