I think for much of the 2000s the overall severe regional economic problems that Canada was having were somehow masked in some ways by the incredible boom that was happening in Fort Mac. I don't know how many people from my region were on those contract planes flying in and flying out, doing twelve days in and twelve days out, but those big oil and gas construction jobs seem to be gone. Your members working in the refineries and plants will tend to be there and they will have representation, yet people who have to fly back home to Miramichi or other rural parts of Canada are just not getting the call to come back.
How important is it that we have a plan for workers in that fly-in, fly-out economy, who are not going to get representation that your unions would provide? Also, how important is it that we have regional round tables to make sure that investments are sustainable so workers who have gone back to rural regions are going to have jobs?