Thank you, Madam Chairman.
Welcome to our witnesses. It is a very interesting, timely, and important discussion here.
First, I have a couple of questions for Statistics Canada. When you look at the numbers, the unemployment rate is maybe not quite as bad as sometimes we hear it is. At the same time, we are all in agreement that any level of unemployment is probably higher than we would want to have, so the questions remain what do we do to combat that, as legislators and as parliamentarians, and how do we work with you folks, whether that is the Canadian Labour Congress or the bureaucracies in the country, to combat that.
I have a point of clarification. Your chart on page 4 says that, on average, unemployed youth have shorter unemployment periods, but I would expect youth would have shorter unemployment periods because I would expect they would be in school most of the time. Is this part of that consideration by Statistics Canada?