Thank you for the question.
Pardon me for not being able to respond completely en français. I would do disservice to your question if I tried to do that.
You are certainly touching on an important point. There are social, environmental, and economic impacts to any rapid expansion of industry or of job creation. That is a reality.
It's a problem we would welcome in Saint John, and New Brunswick would certainly welcome that kind of challenge. Right now, we see in Saint John the willingness, and we've always had this willingness, to embrace big development. The social licence is there. We don't see big development and quality of life as mutually exclusive.
If you were to visit Saint John, you would see that the homes are literally a stone's throw from the refinery. The fact that there may be challenges in the initial phase of having large development could probably be met with the existing housing stock, for example. We have the largest vacancy rate for rental accommodation of any community in Atlantic Canada. The same goes for commercial space. The vacancy rate for commercial space is the largest found in any place in the Maritimes.
So the opportunity is there. We have the geographical space. We know from the unemployment rates that the people are there. We also have the physical space to accommodate it.
Certainly, there would need to be attention from all levels of government working together for the necessary educational programs and the necessary training to accommodate an increase in the workforce of the kind we'd like to see. That is something we need to be doing right now, rather than when these projects happen down the road.