Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm happy that today I am Ms. Savoie, rather than Ms. Savoye.
Thank you for all your comments. They were very interesting.
I would also like to come back to some comments made by my colleagues. Mr. Baird's comments on literacy worry me a great deal. He said that it would be better to teach children than to waste money on adults. That worries me a great deal, particularly coming from a member of a government which says it is interested in helping families. We know that children with literacy problems, or reading problems, frequently come from families with an illiteracy issue. It is therefore difficult to tackle one problem without tackling the other. You have already mentioned that.
I think that we should recognize that, even without the budget cuts announced yesterday, Canada's literacy budget was already very low.
Could you comment on that? Yesterday, you recommended that the government try to restore the funding, but that the funding—even when restored—would be inadequate. I believe that the literacy movement has been requesting stable, long-term and increased funding to tackle the problem for a long time now. Could you comment on the lack of funding, and on the need for more funding in this sector if we are to make any genuine progress in dealing with the employability issue?
I would first like to hear Ms. DesBrisay, then Ms. Regehr.