I hope I'll have another chance to talk about this idea of the right to literacy and to understand more your thoughts on what that right would mean, what its extent is, if there are the limits on the right, and so forth.
But let me move to another question--for Mr. Murphy--because I have only a limited amount of time.
One of the comments we heard today, I think from Ms. Manson Singer, was that employers don't think that low levels of literacy are an economic problem.
That was Ms. Seward. Thank you very much.
How significant a problem do you think it is that employers don't see this, and what is the role of your organization in trying to combat that misapprehension, if that's what you think it is?
We heard also that employers don't see immigration as key. That's very disturbing, and again, the same questions apply. How significant is that, and what's the role of the chamber in trying to inform businesses and make them see the importance of immigration?
Lastly, on seasonal industries, it was definitely Ms. Seward who talked about seasonal industries in, for instance, Prince Edward Island and your experience there. I would like to hear your response to her comments about the fact that there are coastal communities all over Atlantic Canada and Quebec, for example, that rely on the fishing industry, to which the fishing industry makes a very substantial contribution. There are other seasonal industries, such as tourism; sometimes forestry is seasonal, of course; fruit-picking; and a variety of others that play a role.
Some of those employers must be members of your organization. What do you say to them about how they can have employees if there isn't something to support seasonal workers? How would you address that?