I think part of it, too, is bearing in mind that the return on investment on this is really thin as it is. There are a lot of wind farms that don't even break even by the time the 20-year lifespan is hit.
The beauty of mining is that you can have mines that are open for 70, 80 or 90 years. They can continue to go, they can find new deposits or they can change the focus of what they're trying to find. Depending on the formation, they might be able to keep the mine going and going.
In that case, it's a little different because you're able to build and establish a long-term projectable project, but with wind, some wind farms are taken down after 10, 12 or 15 years because there are issues with them and the profitability isn't there. I think making things more cumbersome for offshore in particular.... With the set-up and installation of these things, the costs are astronomical compared to those on land.
Creating and finding a sustainable workforce is not going to happen in one particular region of the country because, again, the scalability in the long run is not going to be there. It's great that the provinces are looking at doing this, but the reality is that trying to get the skilled labour you need for this is going to require short-term contract workers to come in. Hopefully, they'll come from somewhere else in Canada—that's certainly my hope—but forcing them to be local.... Maybe that will be great, but people are going to have a job for a year or two, and then they'll have nothing else nearby because they've just been trained to do something and there's no longer going to be any work. Then they'll be the ones who have to travel and be imported somewhere else to do the work.
If there are project labour agreements in those places, a person can't get the work in the field they've been trained for. A company will have spent all of that money training somebody to do something they can no longer do. Again, these things sound like a fine idea, but practically it's going to be tough.