Thank you. I'll be sharing my time.
Thank you very much, Minister, for being here today. I have a couple of questions and a couple of comments.
You have travelled quite a bit, trying to talk about the goals you have with labour. I'm interested in knowing if you've spent any time in Saskatchewan. Our mining industry is an example of working with aboriginals in the north. At Cameco and Cogema, where aboriginals have very good jobs, they have very good work practices. I would like you to use them as a case study of how well you can work when you're trying to have racism-free workplace strategies, because I think they have done that.
I think you're right to stay out of some of the provinces' jurisdictions. In Saskatchewan, I understand that's why our economy doesn't grow; many investors in the private sector do not want to invest in Saskatchewan because of our labour and our labour laws. I think it would be very worthwhile for you to study that. If the proof is there...because most companies will invest in Alberta, but they will not cross that border, even though we have as many resources and sometimes more.
Those are just a couple of things I'd like you to ponder. I did see that you travelled to Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax, and yet I do think that in Saskatchewan you could probably cite examples across the board of what you need for a good labour strategy.
My main question, Minister, is to ask if you could update the members of the committee on the status of your department's racism-free workplace strategy.