Thank you, and I thank the witnesses for coming.
About a year ago I took over from Madame LeBlanc as the science and technology critic. I have heard a lot from scientists and a lot from technologists, but I was very keen to hear more from engineers. Thanks very much for coming today.
Really, what I was interested in is what you've been telling us: the state of engineering. Being trained in policy, what I'm interested in are problems and solutions. It seems the overwhelming problem that you've been highlighting here is skills shortages, but there seems to be a subset of problems in there.
All of you could answer. Would the skill shortage be the main problem, or are there other problems that we could perhaps discuss here today?