Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the guests for coming here.
Mr. Buy, my first question to you is about your experience over in Europe and the European model. I know a little bit about what the Dutch are doing for the young people, getting them into the workplace, but especially the German model, and you mentioned that.
What I understand about it is the federal government is quite involved with the education process, and they really start when the students are young and help them go through their path of career. At the end of the day, by the time they're 20 years old, many of them are really ready to work, and they know their occupation and the industry knows that they will get good-quality young people. It seems like in our society here in North America our young people between the ages of 18 and 28, they are floating around at different jobs. Really, I don't know if the right guidance is there, and I don't know if it's because of our federal-provincial system.
But can you explain a little bit about that whole system they have out there and exactly how the federal government is involved? And what happens right at the classroom level—at grade 10, for instance—and how does it transpire that someone in grade 10 becomes one of the top engineers for Volkswagon or whatever? How does all of that work?