Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are studying employability in Canada.
I'd like to welcome all the witnesses here today. I want to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to be here to talk to us as we talk to people across the country about this very important issue of employability.
As you may or may not be aware, we were in St. John's, Newfoundland, and Halifax and Montreal this week, and of course Toronto today and tomorrow. We'll be heading out to Vancouver, Calgary, and Saskatoon in the coming weeks, in November, to talk to people about these issues. We could probably spend a day or two with each individual organization, but this is all the time we have, and we're grateful that we have it. So we appreciate you taking the time as well.
We'll ask you to do your opening statements within seven minutes, and I'll let you know when you have a minute left. Then we'll have a first round of questions of seven minutes, a second round of questions of five minutes, after which, time permitting, any other member can ask additional questions.
Why don't we start with Mr. D'Amours?