Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, and I want to thank everyone for their excellent presentations.
I also want to thank all of you, because I think each one of you started off your presentation by thanking the government for our quick work, for our fast work and for the tremendous programs that we've put into place. I really appreciate that. In a five-week time period, we have been dealing with an unprecedented pandemic, and we have put in some historic programs that have never been created in Canada before. Thank you for acknowledging all of that.
My first question is for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
This morning, one of the big news items was that Statistics Canada said that Canada lost over a million jobs in March. Our unemployment rate is up to 7.8% and everybody's anticipating it's going to get a little worse. I believe it was you, Ms. Nord, who mentioned that the workforce will be different as we start coming out of this pandemic.
What should we be doing in the coming months to transition Canada's workforce to meet the needs of a changed workforce as we come out of this pandemic?