Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I just want to say a huge thanks to everyone for their excellent presentations. They were extraordinarily informative and very important.
I, too, want to lend my congratulations to Mr. Siddall. Thank you so much for your extraordinary service to our nation, and also best of luck on your next move. I want to say a huge thank you for the answer to the question that Mr. Kelly posed. People in my riding will be super happy that you have clarified that very well.
My question is for the other three groups that are part of our panel today.
The reality is that the world of work has been changing quite rapidly. This happened before the pandemic and is continuing even after the pandemic. The world will not look the same after this pandemic as we come out of it. The question for me is, how can our federal government help with the transitions? The travel industry is going to change. The world for artists in the cultural sector will change, and also how our non-profits will be serving our communities will change as well.
Our federal government has attempted a couple of things. We have introduced $1.5 billion in workforce development, meaning training and retraining programs. There's also an idea on the table, not proposed formally by our government but by a number of people broadly in our society, that maybe a new model for our social welfare system should be some sort of a guaranteed basic income.
Are these the right ideas and, if not, what might you propose?
Who would like to respond to that?