Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to each of you for your presentations.
It struck me, both on the health care side and on the education side, that the repeated theme is around the demographic shift and the importance of us building public policy that will prepare Canadians for the shift, both economically and socially—because of the impact on our productivity, when currently 44% of Canadians don't participate in the labour market. That figure will rise to 57% by 2026.
I'd like to start on the education side. Right now our policies are built around someone getting an education at community college or university, graduating, and then going into the workforce. We really have very little in terms of public policy beyond that. What should we be doing in terms of building public policy for higher education, in terms of the capacity to educate, re-educate, train, and retrain throughout one's life in order to adapt for these shifts that are going to be upon us? I'd be interested in your thoughts in terms of some of those long-term policies.