Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses.
My first question is to Mr. Yussuff. Your second proposal, which is to improve income security, has pretty well been ridiculed from coast to coast to coast by the government. I've seen parliamentary secretaries on national television describing it as a nine-week work year and not really seriously engaging in any kind of rationalization of the system. There are still 58 separate categories of qualifications. If you're a waiter working upstairs, for instance, in the Parliamentary Restaurant, if you live in Quebec it's one standard of qualification, and if you happen to live in Ottawa it's another standard of qualification. It's a system that cries out for very significant reform.
My first question to you, Mr. Yussuff, is this: given the government's attitude towards this fundamental change in unemployment, how do you expect this Parliament will respond to this request on your part?