From our research, we're being told that this is a policy that's been in place and that commercial truck driver training programs historically don't have the length of time that's necessary to pursue the Canadian [Technical difficulty—Editor] the other vocational trades that are out there do have access to this.
My question to the committee is this: What other profession can you go into where you get four to six weeks of education and then go on to a carrier that supplies good, existing, behind-the-wheel training, where an individual is going to make somewhere between $70,000 and a hundred grand in their first year? They are very easily able to pay that loan off. [Technical difficulty—Editor] carriers, which leads to good insurers, which leads to long-term, sustainable careers.