That's the essential bit, to be honest with you. I come from a province where we have one of the greatest migrations internally in this country. At a time when flights are decreasing, we are actually increasing the number of flights and putting back into place direct flights to Toronto—mainly from Deer Lake—because of the number of workers we have in rural Newfoundland in particular who are flying back and forth every day of every week to work in Alberta and Saskatchewan, sometimes B.C., as rotational workers in the energy industry, but who are making sure they come back here because they want to raise their families in Newfoundland.
It is a lot of going back and forth, and we lose some of these workers. We don't just lose them within Canada; I can take that, obviously, but it's around the world. We're losing really high-calibre, international-grade talent in our energy industry. We can't have that. We have to make sure, where we can, that the government steps in to make sure we bridge it until the marketplace takes over in a meaningful way, and it will, in areas like hydrogen.
The hydrogen strategy for Canada lays the foundation for a huge opportunity and to build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic. It relies on Canadian expertise throughout the entire value chain to build new hydrogen supply, distribution and end uses. Those in turn will support a low-carbon energy ecosystem with benefits that could begin right now, strengthening our economic competitiveness to grow export potential, attract investment, create good, sustainable jobs across the country, and drive down emissions in sectors like resource extraction and processing in freight, transportation, power generation and manufacturing. There are also big opportunities in the production of steel and cement, where electrification may not be the best choice.
Low-carbon, zero-emission hydrogen has the potential to reduce our annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 45 million metric tons a year in 2030. That's a huge potential.