Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I too believe this is a really important issue. I would rather that we weren't even dealing with it, that our country would continue to move forward in a positive way, and that more job creation was happening and so on. But the reality is that anyone who has been in the U.S. has seen the downturn in the economy there. They're into a recession, whether they're ready to admit it or not. When that happens, we know it's going to happen here, and we know it's going to affect a lot of our workers and a lot of the companies. The auto industry has been really hit these last couple of months, and we continue to see jobs lost there.
I think the issue is important, I think we need to be looking at it, and I think it's appropriate that this committee look at it. But I am concerned about the fact that Finance is where it all ends up. They are currently looking at it, and we have other things to do. I think we should get on with the employability study and try to get that finished so that we can move into some of the poverty issues we wanted to study.
I do think it's very important. We should be looking at it if it's not being dealt with properly at the finance committee. It should come back and we should be looking at it....
So I think you need a motion to table it at this particular time. Let's monitor what's going on at Finance so that we don't lose the importance of this issue, and we'll move on with it at a later date.
Thank you.