Minister, it's a pleasure to have you here.
I'll follow on the question posed by my colleague. Over the weekend, I visited a company in Willowdale. Willowdale is one of the ridings with 60% of residents born outside Canada, and probably 50% or more are visible minorities. The company I visited is a company invested in by Indonesian and Chinese immigrants, entrepreneurs, but they are having a very difficult time finding the level of PhD students to be in the semiconductor design business. Often engineers who do arrive express to us their frustration in having a mismatch between the length of time it takes to immigrate and the length of time it takes to find the right job.
Perhaps you can share with us, based on your consultation with various ethnic communities, how this new expression of interest recruitment program would bridge that gap faster. As you know, in the semiconductor business you really have a life cycle of only one year from invention to production. Speed is what is needed in our fast-moving hi-tech economy.