Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his question.
At the same time, I would also like to respond to the Conservative Party member who asked a question earlier. As for the first question, I would point out to the House that when I was at school—perhaps not many people remember that long ago—I remember I was at boarding school and the fathers taught us that the Americans became rich by minding their own business. As I got older, I realized that nothing was further from the truth, since the Americans preached a buy made in USA policy. The day when Canada is able to do that and teach elementary school children Canadian nationalism and Quebec nationalism, we will be that much better off.
To answer the question asked by my hon. NDP colleague, apart from adapting or transferring workers to the western provinces, which greatly needed workers in recent years because of oil and gas activities, very few offers were made involving the retraining of workers in their own field. Instead, they were told they should take part in training programs for jobs outside their region or they were simply told to move in order to work in another region, which is harmful to Canada overall.