Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you very much to all three of you for coming, and for making your presentations here today.
If you were here for the earlier session you probably noticed that the chair is very lenient with witnesses but not so much with committee members, so I'm going to ask all of my questions at the front end and I know he'll give you lots of time to answer, if that's all right.
My first question would be to you, Mr. Kelly. I am really struck by one of the slides in your deck in which you outlined the labour shortages, that it's jobs that require on-the-job training that actually have the highest vacancy rate, I suppose, if I can put it that way. So my question to you would be, do you know what the average wages are for jobs that require on-the-job training, either regionally or nationally?
Mr. Wilson, I really appreciated your comments about training and I wonder whether you could elaborate for me on what percentage of your members you think actually have apprenticeship programs that are currently running, if you know that.
You also made a really interesting comment about aboriginal participation. I wonder if you have some thoughts about specific suggestions to us, as a committee, about labour market participation by all kinds of under-represented groups in the workplace, and whether there is something you particularly want to highlight for us.
Mr. Beatty, I really appreciate your comments about the immigration policies and wonder whether you could just talk a little bit. To me, there is a big difference between bringing in temporary foreign workers and re-examining our immigration policy, because the latter, to me, also includes things like making sure that families have the ability to come over and that Canada becomes an attractive new home for people we want to attract as workers. I wonder whether you were using the two synonymously or not, when you talked about changes to the immigration policy.
Thank you very much.