Thank you very much for that.
We have been joined by our further two witnesses. I'd like to welcome to the table Valerie Bowers, the executive director of the Mi'kmaq Employment Training Secretariat; as well as Karen Pictou, the partnership liaison officer.
Welcome. We're glad you made it. I know you had a challenge last week. We anticipated having you by teleconference and here you are live, so it's very good that you're here.
We will leave your testimony until the end and we'll move on to Susanna for her testimony from the chamber.