I want to welcome all of our colleagues and all of our witnesses here.
Our orders of the day are pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), continuing our study of youth employment in Canada. We have a number of organizations here with us today.
We have, first, the Association of Canadian Community Colleges. We have the president and CEO, Ms. Denise Amyot, welcome.
From the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum we have the executive director, Sarah Watts-Rynard. Welcome to the committee.
We have the Canadian Federation of Students, Mr. Brent Farrington. Welcome.
We are supposed to have La Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec. We are still waiting for that gentleman.
We have Bonnie Schmidt, who is the founder and president of Let's Talk Science. Welcome back to the committee.
From the National Educational Association of Disabled Students, we have the national coordinator, Mr. Frank Smith.
We want to welcome you all this afternoon. You will each have five minutes maximum for an opening statement and then we'll have questions from members.
We'll begin with the Association of Canadian Community Colleges, please.