The shipbuilding strategy has really brought part of the industry back to a very good level. We have a lot of apprentices who have gone through. They have a career in front of them and they're going to do extremely well.
We just need to expand on it. It's been good for Vancouver. It's been good for Halifax. I think it's really done extremely well for the industry across the country, so we just need to expand on that. We need to make sure that when the federal government is going to invest in the industry, it's looking at Canadian jobs. It needs to see it's putting people to work.
A lot of young people out there are struggling today to find a career path, and this is a great career path. People are able to buy their homes, pay their mortgages and buy their cars. It's a great job, but for the federal government to finance projects like BC Ferries' project to China with absolutely no Canadian content whatsoever is just wrong. My members were devastated when the announcement came out that they were going to build four ferries in China, but they were extremely devastated when they found out—because nobody knew—that the federal government was actually loaning the money to BC Ferries to build in China.
There is a lot of criticism going toward both levels of government for how this project went. This project was in the can for seven years. That's when it started, and at no time did BC Ferries come to the industry and ask what the industry could do. The only thing they said to the industry all the way through was that this project would be done on price and price alone, and that there was no value in Canadian workers. That's basically what they said to us, so we're extremely frustrated with the whole process.