Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses.
I'm going to ask two questions and then see if we can get a response.
First, a lot of the testimony that we've received here at committee has been around the mining sector, but I think that as a result of the Marshall decision in 1999 one of the true opportunities that first nations people have been able to seize has been in the fishery in Atlantic Canada. I'll pose the question and then I want to give you a couple of seconds to gather your thoughts on it.
Do we continue to train? Some communities have done well with that opportunity, and other communities haven't done as well. Are we continuing to train young people to get into the fishery? Because it was a completely new experience for a lot of first nations communities. If you can gather your thoughts on that, just give us your view on it.
I want to go to Ms. Cluff-Clyburne. The Prime Minister in 2012 said that Canada was seized by this skills crisis, and Minister Finley referred to it as a crisis. Minister Kenney sort of stepped back from that; he's not sure why.... I think the Prime Minister's comments were really a result of the study that the chamber came out with.
In 2012 when you tabled the report on the skills crisis, you said that the number one challenge to Canadian competitiveness was the skills crisis, but since then, Donald Drummond, the TD, and the PBO have come out and said that it's sectoral and regional. Could you sort of square the difference in the two?