We would like to welcome everybody here, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), our study on employability in Canada. I would like to take this time to thank all the witnesses for taking time out of their busy schedules to be here today to talk to us about what we believe is a very crucial issue, not only now but affecting us in the future.
I have a couple of housekeeping items, and I always leave something out, so I'm sure all my colleagues will remind me as we go through.
The way it will work today is you will get seven minutes each, and I would like to keep you right to seven minutes because we have a number of witnesses. If you don't get to all of your recommendations, my suggestion is that we'll try to pick that up in the questions. Then we'll have seven minutes of questions and answers of all the members, followed by a round of five minutes.
To the MPs, you have some research documents. I just want to make sure the clerk gets them back, and then we can redistribute them to you at the next meeting. That's the original report on the study of employability in Canada. So if we could get that back, that would be great.
The third thing is, for those of you who presented briefs a little bit late, they cannot be distributed to the full committee until after they've been translated. We will make sure they get translated. You may reference them today, but if they're late coming in, as far as the submission goes, you can rest assured that the committee will get them at some point, after they've been translated.
I'm going to start with Mr. Kramer.
Thank you for being here, sir. You have seven minutes, please.