Exactly, and that is why I would also like to tell you about everything we are doing to recognize previous experience and skills so that we can respond quickly to labour shortages and so that we do not discourage newcomers, or people needing a new career.
Take a two-year college program. If you tell people that they have to learn new skills and that it will take two years, they are not going to be motivated at all. If you tell recently arrived immigrants that they have to do two years’ training in order to work in such-and-such an area, they get discouraged and you do nothing for the labour shortage.
More and more, we are equipping our colleges to be able to recognize previous experience and skills. That means being able to evaluate them. Do people have skills related to the training required that they have acquired in the jobs they have previously held? When that evaluation is done, we can most often give credit for 8, 9 or 10 months of training.