I am giving you an example of a business that set up in the northern part of the province and decided to make permanent jobs available. Fifty per cent of the workers refused those jobs. Some of them say that they want to continue working in the same way. A few months later, the federal government changed the Employment Insurance Act, and the issue was resolved.
We have an entity in our province called Invest New Brunswick. That organization seeks out companies from the outside and encourages them to come set up in our province. The organization's biggest challenge is to find employees for the companies.
I can talk to you about another company from the call centre sector, which is a fairly strong industry in New Brunswick. It had offices in Bathurst and Fredericton. The company had to close its Bathurst office because it never managed to have the number of employees it needed.
That's a problem. This also brings us to the issue of training. Unemployed individuals don't necessarily have the training required to access those jobs.