Thank you very much.
I'm going to start by making a comment and an observation, more to the committee, really, than to you. We've been studying skills shortages and as a matter of course in this debate that has also evolved around the changes to EI, which you have probably been following in the media.
Government members are now saying that we have unprecedented skills shortages in this country when in fact we know that we don't. We still have labour market surpluses; we still have more people looking for jobs. We have shortages in specific areas and specific occupations, and I think as a committee we need to focus on that as opposed to pretending that there are shortages across the board.
So I was really interested—