Now that I've hit the gavel, we can start.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we continue with our study on employability in Canada. I just want to welcome you on behalf of our study. I want to thank you all for taking the time out of your busy schedules to be here.
As you may or may not know, we've been travelling this week to St. John's, Halifax, and Montreal yesterday, and then today and tomorrow we'll be in Toronto, and we'll be heading out west sometime in the next couple of weeks, actually sometime in November.
We do want to thank you, as I said, for being here. We realize you're all very busy.
First I want to deal with a couple of housekeeping issues. You have translation in front of you: number one will be for English and number two for French. Each organization will have seven minutes, and then that will be followed by a question and answer of seven minutes from the members, followed by a five-minute round after that. So if you're not able to get all your information in, maybe during the questions you'll be able to do that.
If we could get started, I'm going to start off with you, Ms. Barron. If you would be so kind as to start off for us, we'd greatly appreciate it.