I'm from the city of Mississauga, and we're very proud of our new Sheridan College campus. It opened up officially just this past September and has many students in high-tech studies. Computer animation is huge. I've talked to the president of the college and I'm thrilled with the programming going on there and the graduates who will eventually come out of it.
Here's my question for you as representatives of those companies that would be hiring these graduates. We always have this dichotomy of, “Well, yes, they've graduated, and they have a skill set, but they have no practical experience, so we're not going to hire them.”
Mr. Kee, you mentioned earlier your frustration over labour market opinions, because you'd like to get from other countries the people with three to five years of experience and get them working immediately for your member companies.
We always have this difficulty of what we do with our new graduates, who are ready to go but don't have that work experience. What can you offer to the committee to help us in our deliberations to make sure that those new graduates who leave the Sheridan College campus in Mississauga on graduation day can start to work in your industry the next day? What can we do? Where are the areas at the federal level where we can be more helpful in making sure that the transition happens so that those new graduates are getting a job literally the next day, when you're telling me there are thousands of jobs available across the country in these sectors?
Did you want to start, Ms. Peters?
Will that then probably be it for me, Mr. Chairman?