Thank you.
Thank you to all of our presenters.
I want to make an editorial comment. I am a bit troubled by some of the tone used towards EI claimants. We did hear from Ms. Donnelly. She said that 99% of the people who receive EI would rather be working, and certainly I know that to be the case where I come from.
While I appreciate the discussion about some of the trends that business owners may be seeing in terms of young people, without those figures to discuss.... If we are going to continue down that path, I think we also need to have a discussion about the lack of good jobs available to young people in today's economy, and the increased dependence on precarious work, particularly in places like Toronto. That's for another discussion, but I don't like seeing my generation and those younger be maligned, in general terms, without having a fulsome discussion about the situation they face.
I want to go back to Professor Gray and Mr. Busby.
Professor Gray, you, in particular, referred to the importance of the labour market survey, which obviously pertains to the discussion here, but more broadly to the decisions governments make on the job front and program front. I wonder if you could speak a bit about why it is so important, and what we need to be doing on that front.