Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, you've referred to this already in your opening remarks and also in response to Mr. Lessard. In regard to the initiative for older workers, all of us know, maybe through personal experience, that it becomes a little more difficult for older people to get back into the workforce when they get laid off. It's harder to learn new skills and harder to get back into the workforce if those jobs or careers no longer exist. You've said a number of times in the House that you have real confidence that older workers can learn the new skills it takes to re-enter the workforce, and that we shouldn't write them off or send them out to pasture and off into the sunset.
People have said that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I don't think that refrain is valid any more. At 50-plus myself, I know we can teach an old dog new tricks. It takes longer sometimes, and you may have to go a little slower and use a bit more repetition. I find this with myself, though I don't know about others. Learning French, for example, takes more repetition and you have to go slower at it. I can pick up these new skills. I've been a member of Parliament now for 12 years, but I won't be one forever. At some point down the road I will have to pick up new skills. I have confidence that I can do it.
I have a lot of older workers in my constituency of Saskatoon—Wanuskewin. What does the training program look like in the targeted initiative for older workers? Can you explain the program, what it looks like in terms of their getting back into the workforce? How would older workers get into the program and back into the workforce?