Human Resources committee  Thanks. On the language issue, most job sites do have a bit of a common language that we use. Do you know what I mean? Madam Nord, one of the things that you commented on was the Atlantic immigration pilot program. You said yes, and then you got cut off. I wonder if you can exp

Human Resources committee  But we're talking about skilled tradesmen—

Human Resources committee  —or tradespeople, about bringing them in and not just having a company say, “I need a body, so I'm going to use the Atlantic system”, or just, “Come on in. You don't have any skills. I just need something to lower our wage.”

Human Resources committee  So you don't see any harm in that?

Human Resources committee  Do you agree with that assessment, Mr. Lewis?

Human Resources committee  Do you feel that for the future we're meeting our requirements for apprenticeships, or do we see those falling for the future?

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Going back to the apprenticeships, you made a very, very good point. I know when I was younger, when I went to high school, you could go the academic way or you could go into construction. It would start off at grade 9. Grades 9, 10 and 11, you went into the shops. My

Human Resources committee  I have one more question in my two minutes, Mr. Lewis. My understanding is that national mobility is a huge issue across Canada. There is no incentive for any skilled tradesman to come to another project or go to another province because there's no incentive for him to write of

Human Resources committee  My last question is for anybody who wants to answer it.

Human Resources committee  The writer of this motion, Mr. Peter Fonseca, made a recommendation that he would like to see, which is to see “the Atlantic immigration pilot project, as a template, and the use of permanent immigration to assist in addressing this huge challenge.” Do you agree that the Atlanti

Human Resources committee  I'd like to thank everybody for coming here today. It's very informative. I'm kind of mixed up in terms of some of the past testimony and what I'm hearing today, so I want to ask Mr. Lewis a question. Are we talking about skilled tradespeople or skilled labour? We're not just

Human Resources committee  Okay. As Mr. Vaccaro mentioned, you can call them skilled workers and you can call them semi-skilled workers, whatever you want, but they are tradesmen, and you're talking about the same thing. You need people who are trained in those categories.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. My next important question is for BuildForce. I have a document here from the Library of Parliament. I understand that in January 2019, BuildForce Canada, a national construction industry association, included data and projections for the greater Toronto area. Thi