We have another presentation; it's not based on our research, but a Leger public opinion poll on where people want to work in the future. And it's flipped from when I graduated many years ago. It used to be that you'd work in government or in big business. Today, 41% say they want to own their own firm and be self-employed; another 28% say they want to be in the professions or in the trades, which means 70% in terms of our membership. So we have these young people saying they want to own their own business and we have these older folks who say they want to sell their business. How to bring them together is one of the big challenges.
There are two things that came out of that, though. One was disconcerting, and that is that there's a succession problem in the public sector. I'm very concerned about this. I worked with the Canada Revenue Agency for many years, but the corporate memory has diminished to the point that the experience level in the CRA—I'm in big trouble again—is about three or four years at the deputy commissioner level. All of the old guard have moved on; even the people who set up the registry have moved on, and that's just one case. I've seen it in other departments. If you look at Industry Canada, you'll see the rotation of the senior levels, so all of this corporate memory is moving on. We find ourselves being the corporate memory. So I'm concerned about that side of it.
I don't know if I'm fully answering your question, but the succession issue is not just one for our members, but also for the public sector and large firms. It's a big issue that we have to address.