Thank you very much.
There's been some discussion. We've heard from numerous witnesses. We've heard from the Council of Canadians on this omnibus bill, and the Conservatives pointed out earlier that there have been budget implementation acts in the past that actually were more voluminous in terms of the number of pages. I would just like to reference that those budget implementation acts contained hundreds of pages of customs tariff data and tables. This budget implementation act does not contain that. That's a big difference.
I'm about to celebrate my fifteenth anniversary as a member of Parliament. I don't remember a budget implementation act debate being led in the House by a minister of natural resources and a minister of the environment, which was the case with this. I'm just pointing that out for clarification.
I want to start off with the issue of youth unemployment. We have an issue now where this year we have seen the worst youth employment numbers in ten years, so pre-dating the downturn. I'd appreciate input from the museum sector and the cultural sector as to the demographic of the people in the cultural and museum sectors, as an example. Is it accurate to assume that there is a disproportionate number of opportunities for young people in your sectors?