There has been quite a bit of work and study in the area—and we can certainly provide some references to the committee clerk about it—on whether or not high employment rates of older workers actually result in higher unemployment rates for young people.
There is no empirical evidence of it; in fact, the two move together. A stronger older-worker contingent means that they are consuming and buying and creating the jobs around them that allow young people to also participate. I think you can see the two things moving together, and in this committee I hope you will be able to not see it as a trade-off.
There has been quite a bit of empirical work done on it, but there is no evidence that there is some kind of trade-off whereby you pick one group over the other.