In Canada, we're going to see double the retirement rate for the next 10 years. Two percent of our work force is going to retire. And if you look at this slide, it's double the normal retirement rate. In Canada, virtually 20 percent of everybody we're counting on today will be gone. In some provinces it is as high as 28 percent, a very sobering statistic. And in order to replace those people, just to replace the people leaving, we need to recruit 150,000.

The net with assuming only moderate growth is 165,000 people. If we have significant economic growth as is forecast, the number will be over 200,000. That means in demographic terms, replacing everybody, one in, one out. If you want to convert that to U.S., multiply it times 10. If we don't do this now, when are we going to do it? There are some things happening to try and combat this, and we are getting some very real leadership from the Boilermakers on this issue.

Firstly, since Joe Maloney came back, we've got the Helmets to Hardhats Program in Canada. Although we have a small military in Canada, it has application. It's going to get us people. Good people that we can count on, and maybe we can use it to help attract people into the reserve forces.

Your online travel card system, which will let somebody get on the out-of-work list without having to travel on spec, having someone get called for the job, is going to make a good system for the people who have to travel. Much better integration of local lodges will result. And we've got a work issue, we need to go after the work before it goes away.

And I'm not talking about working for less here, and I know Joe's not talking about working for less. If we've got something, we'll build on the provincial agreement, something we can do to battle the bad guys, because we only get one grab at this brass ring.

We're also getting some very real and very strong leadership from the Boilermakers in Eastern Canada. The Tripartite that Ed spoke about in the introduction, every major construction owner in Eastern Canada is participating. Tripartite, as an initiative, has tremendous potential. Tremendous potential.

It is growing the programs and the solutions we're going to need. And it is getting the owners and our contractor partners in the same room energized and engaged in what is going on with us. And if the owners are participating with us to grow the work force, they are not going to go looking somewhere else.