Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister Finley and Minister Ambrose, for being here today.
I want to direct a few questions just as a follow-up to some of my colleagues here with respect to the labour program activity and the consultations with the stakeholders on some concrete ways for modernizing part III. If you'd take some notes, Minister, I have four questions.
First, do you know or have some rounded figure in terms of how much has been spent on that initiative so far in terms of the consultation with stakeholders for modernizing part III?
Second, what would be your sense or your department's sense in terms of the key challenges in modernizing federal labour standards--first, a dollar amount, then what has been spent thus far, then the key challenges?
Third, is non-compliance with and non-enforcement of part III of the Canada Labour Code a major issue? If that's the case, what will be done in the year ahead to ensure a greater compliance under that part of the code?
Fourth, we've talked in terms of the moves, the concrete action for updating part III, but do you have some precise dates in terms of when you anticipate that would be completed?