Thank you, Madam Chair. I hope the simultaneous interpretation is working.
Ms. Pennington and Mr. Wilson, I gather from your comments that strong partnership is clearly needed. And that requires the employers, workers, education/training sector and unions in a given region to come together and channel their efforts toward the same end.
We've noticed a major deficiency as far as basic skills training is concerned. An employer certainly isn't going to be interested in hiring a young person or an adult who can barely read or write. The problem is fairly widespread. Whether we're talking about young aboriginals or others, people aren't learning these basic skills. How can LMDAs be leveraged to fix that problem?