What we're saying is to address it on a local-by-local basis. We're prepared to sit down with the employer on a local-by-local basis and address it.
As I said, on the Fraser River, there are 286 people on the list. Eighty-three of those people are women. They deserve their chance to come into this workforce. Some of them on that list have been waiting for three years now to get a job. They've been sitting there hoping they'll get one of those jobs. Exhaust that list and then do hiring on a fifty-fifty basis.
We also participate in a thing called TranspoCity.ca, which is part of WESTAC, a group we belong to. There's a website that holds all non-traditional jobs. It's something you might want to view.
Another thing we do is to go into high schools and what have you and talk to people, as Sister O'Donnell was saying, to try to encourage not only women, but minorities and people in general. If you remember, during the dot-com craze, everybody wanted to be inventing video games; nobody wanted to repair cars, telephones, and what have you. So we had to get people interested once again in the trades, which is where the expansion of our economy is going to go, in servicing those things. We're prepared to do it. We'll sit down.
I just wouldn't want to see this committee used to get something for somebody that they're not entitled to and used as a smokescreen; I think you should feel insulted if that happens. Thank you.