Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks for the presentation. Certainly this is a very important issue in terms of youth unemployment overall. I was looking at some of the statistics you used in terms of our comparative ranking with the OECD countries. It's interesting that our unemployment rate among youth is down to just below 12%, I believe, but the number of jobs has actually stayed level. The number of young Canadians—of youth, as we characterize it under StatsCan—has stayed level. Despite huge investments over the past couple of years, we haven't seen an uptick in the number of youth working. We've seen an uptick in the employment percentage, which means the participation rate is actually getting lower and driving the unemployment rate down.
Can you give us some comments on that? Essentially, where do you think it fits in terms of experiential learning, and is there a higher employment rate, not just a higher salary, for those young people who are going through co-op programs and others?