We are talking about close to 12 million Canadians. That is a huge number.
Based on my personal experience, I am convinced that a good portion of people who are seen as so-called "lazy" workers by some of my colleagues—and I am using major quotes there—are in fact people who have this problem. For them, the simple fact of going to apply for a job at a service station, where the cash register is really a computer, is beyond their reach because they do not have these essential skills. Imagine what might happen if these 12 million people had the essential skills needed to truly integrate into the labour force.
In your opinion, the efforts being made by Canada to bring these 12 million Canadians—or at lest 6 or 7 million of them who are certainly old enough to work—to obtain these essential skills, are they appropriate and sufficient, given this enormous problem? Are we really missing the mark when it comes to the resources to start to resolve the problem?