Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I feel obligated to express my disappointment with this motion and with the NDP. We agreed to undertake the study on the social economy and poverty; that's something I voted for because I thought it was important. Now we have this motion coming up, and I'd like Mr. Martin to address why the NDP is filibustering on something that is very important and very crucial for us to look at--the issue of employability and labour shortages in this country. It is extremely exasperating and it is affecting my riding in my province of Alberta. The notion I get from all the witnesses we bring before us is that this issue is very important all across this country and, I would venture to guess, in the ridings of the members themselves.
Why is the NDP so intent on filibustering this study?