Thank you.
You're actually giving 10 seconds to me because I'm going to take an opportunity here to ask a couple of questions. I want to kind of give some perspective on what you were saying with the involvement of employers and, in particular, on when you suggested that the Canada job grant would be an option for an existing employer to look at before they laid someone off as an option to enhance their own workforce.
I had a company with approximately 20 employees on average in the renovation business. There were times when we didn't have enough work, and I had to lay people off, but it's tough in a small company. As we know, small companies operate—what?—the percentage is 80% of our economy, and typically in real-world Canada, there are close personal connections to your employees in these small companies.
I've always said that the most difficult thing to do was to lay someone off, worse yet, have to fire someone, but I'd just like a couple of brief comments on the outreach part of what you've discussed, if you could. The outreach part of what you talked about really resonated with me, as well as your comments in terms of the delivery of these actually active service people within the employment insurance area, the part II part of it, reaching out to employers at the time of a layoff, let's say, or a potential layoff, when someone comes in.
Perhaps someone could call that employer back and ask, “Did you know that you could do this as a measure?” This is particularly useful with small companies because many owners wouldn't know that. That kind of opportunity I think would be helpful to many small companies, so I'd appreciate maybe a couple of closing comments along those lines.