Thank you, Mr. Lapointe.
Two weeks ago, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce hosted a symposium bringing experts together with small-business owners and managers to talk about training in small businesses. We realize that it's a real challenge for them. I'm hopeful that the recommendations from this one-day session, as well as the report we take forward to government, will have some suggestions on how to help small businesses. They realize, as most of us realize, that we're at a tipping point. We have a very tight labour market. In some areas there are critical shortages. We still have some persistent unemployment. At the micro-business level—five employees or fewer—they really need to hang on to those people. It's difficult to allow people to go away. If you lose one of your 10 employees for two weeks of training, that's 10% of your activity missing.