Thank you, Mr. Chair and Minister, for being here.
I am the son of a taxicab driver, so on behalf of the taxi community, thank you so much for the tax fairness initiative, changing the definition of a taxi business so that ride-sharing services will also have pay HST and GST. Though my question is not on that, I thought I'd say thank you for it.
My question is on coding. I get an opportunity to speak at a lot of high schools, and a lot of kids are worried about going on to post-secondary education and about the jobs that will be out there tomorrow, because the landscape is changing so rapidly. Our government's made this investment in coding. Can you speak to the benefits that we hope to realize as a nation by ensuring that kids as young as kindergarten are learning to code?