This article presents an interview with Bernard Lord, Premier of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. When asked about developing a national plan to create a better-educated workforce through education and training he replied that without learning and knowledge, the overall growth of Canada is not possible. About his plans to deal with unemployment in New Brunswick he said that there are thousands of jobs in New Brunswick that are open and waiting for skilled people to fill them, and the government has thousands of people, unfortunately, who are unemployed and who do not have skills to offer employers.