What I'd like to offer in terms of facts here is that the situation for persons with disabilities in the Canadian labour market improved tremendously up to the last recession in 2008. We saw good trends, better employment rates, increases in the number of people pursuing studies. This is all positive; people are bringing higher levels of skills to the workplace. Through the recession, however, these are people that were more marginalized and they paid a high price from the recession.
From this we see that when there's economic growth, it really helps with the integration of persons with disabilities. Unfortunately, we don't always have the data we need to look at recent years, but with the data we have we see that things are picking up. Things have been pretty good. We had a difficult time through the recession, but the long-term trend is that in Canada something is happening. Persons with disabilities are making their way in the labour market. Their conditions are improving. We see that with various studies that are available.
In the United States as well there are improvements. I could not give you specific statistics, but we see in both countries that the situation of persons with disabilities improving.