Industry committee  All I can say is good luck with that one. I don't know if we can control it. The stories I'm hearing.... Specifically, it was $3,000 for a container shipment a couple of years ago, and now that number has risen to $30,000 or $35,000. In some cases, I'm hearing that my members' sa

Industry committee  I don't have an opinion on that, because I'm not too familiar with that sector. To build on it, I think we need to do a better job of getting the fact of skilled trade opportunities beyond the high schools. We need to start at the grade schools. We need to start teaching young

Industry committee  I think we need a national strategy solution here. We've been piecemealing this. We need industry and government, provincially and federally, together to talk about these things. Labour mobility is such an important topic right now. It's impeding movement. We also have, for exam

Industry committee  Yes, Mr. Fillmore, I believe it dealt with gas fitters, and there are different requirements for gas fitters across the country. Through the Standards Council of Canada, we're working with them now to create a level playing field and make it a bit easier to move across the countr

Industry committee  Are we talking skilled labour here?

Industry committee  I'll start because I represent more of the manufacturers and distributors of the products that we're talking about, but Tania can also weigh into that. I believe the wages are in the $25 per hour range, if I'm not mistaken, on the apprenticeship side, and the amount goes up in t

Industry committee  On the skilled trades side, I'll defer to Tania, because she has a better grasp on that one.

Industry committee  I'll deal with the regulatory question, and I'll then defer to Tania on the Red Seal question. We were part of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement in terms of provincial jurisdictions. For example, the 2020 national plumbing code was just released this year. Prior to that, each p

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I'll weigh in very quickly to leave this question with some substance. Our goal is to create some labour mobility. If I'm a mechanical contractor doing business in Quebec, as an example, and my workers' jobs dry up a bit, my credentials should be recognized in British Columbia a

Industry committee  Actually, Ms. Tania Johnston will go first, if that's okay.

Industry committee  Thank you, Tania, and thank you, members of the committee. I am Ralph Suppa, president and general manager of the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating. Our national chair organization was founded in Montreal in 1933 to provide members with the tools for success to make th