Thank you, Mr. Chair.
When I directed my questions to the minister on Friday last week, Statistics Canada released the latest labour force survey, and it showed that Canada's unemployment rate remained at an historic 33-year low in April. Not only that, but when that labour force survey was adjusted for comparability with the United States definitions, employment growth for the first four months of the year was stronger in Canada than south of the border.
In light of this tight job market, the tight labour market, liberal mobility among Canadians is becoming an increasing concern for many people. So my question is specifically for the minister or for the deputy minister of HRSD. I note that one of the program activities you have is the workplace skills program. It includes a number of programs, one of which is the apprenticeship and labour mobility initiative, which has a mandate to work with provinces on labour mobility issues, including recognizing credentials and licences issued by various provinces so we can remove these barriers in labour mobility issues and so we can address them, I understand, by April 1, 2009.
Can you provide this committee with an update or an idea of the status of this program activity?