Thank you.
To all of our witnesses, I wish we had time to hear from all of you. There are such important points of view being brought forward.
Mr. Wayland, I come from a hardrock mining town. When we lost every single silver mining job and we lost every iron ore job, they gave us a Manpower centre. They told us they were going to retrain all of our workers. That was a way of telling us they were turning out the lights, and they did. Our community never recovered. We lost 4,000 jobs in Elliot Lake. They made lots of promises.
What was different then was that they said there was no future for our hardrock miners, our trained employees. It seems to be that this is a different kind of world we're dealing with. It's not just that we can be moving from something; it's that we need to move to something. How important is it that we get our act together very quickly now so that the trained workers we have and the trained workers you represent are able to make the most of this transition that is happening right now?