Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's an honour and a pleasure for me to be sitting in on the Standing Committee on Finance, of which I am not a member. I'm here to replace someone else.
My questions will be for Mr. Milliard.
The labour shortage is obviously a serious challenge, and we're looking for ways to increase the labour supply. However, it is a theoretical principle in economics that a labour shortage encourages businesses to invest in equipment that will let them continue producing with fewer employees. In this instance, we're talking about IT systems and automated equipment, for example.
Do your members have any such projects under way given the labour shortage? Do they want to make a lot of investments and so on to continue production by involving less labour and more technological resources?