I'd like to call this meeting to order. Pursuant to Standing Order 108.(2), we are studying employability in Canada.
I'd like to take this time, just before we get started, to welcome all our witnesses and to thank you for taking the time to come out and share with us some of your ideas and some of your suggestions on how we as a government can do a better job with this employability issue that's facing our country.
In case you are unaware, we've been travelling this week. We were in St. John's, Newfoundland, in Halifax, in Montreal, and we've spent the last few days in Toronto. We'll be heading west--coming up in the next couple of weeks--to Vancouver, Calgary, and Saskatoon. So we will have an opportunity to hear from right across the country.
We will have seven minutes per group for your statements and then we'll follow with a seven-minute question and answer period, one round, and the second round will be five minutes. That will be your chance, if you don't have time to address all the things you want to address. I realize you could probably spend a day in each particular organization and on each issue, so we'll do our best to get these things moving as quickly as possible.
Perhaps you'd like to go ahead, Ms. Go. You have seven minutes. Thank you very much for being here.