Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being here, and thank you for your hard work on this.
This is a moving file for me. When I was in my riding last week I visited an organization. I met a young man who would be about 22 years old. He told me his story. Most of his life he stayed on the street and had all kinds of issues, and mental health issues. Somehow he got involved in this organization. At present he is mentally stable and he is now able to work as a forklift operator. He is trained now.
I kept on thinking what other witnesses told us. There are 200,000-plus vacancies and almost 800,000 people with a disability who are able to work. There is some sort of disconnect. I wonder if in your organizations you have experienced gaining proper and appropriate employment for this kind of individual. If you have, how do you do it? The federal government could benefit from that input.