Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses today.
I'd like to go back to an area that Mr. Cochrane addressed, and that is training for businesses and consumers.
As a group we've heard a number of different bits of information relative to cloud computing and all of the new technologies.
As a parent, and now a grandparent, I look at my own children in the 35-and-under category that one of you referred to earlier—perhaps it was Mr. Weigelt—and how their adaptation to technology is far higher than those of us who are over 35. I'm not sure anybody is going to wait for me to catch up, but I look at my grandchildren today who are coming along at an exponentially faster pace, because they're playing with technologies and all kinds of toys and games on iPads that are phenomenally adapted from where we were five years ago. It's moving so quickly.
For those of us who come from a business background, when you talk about cloud computing and the opportunity there, the cloud, to me, seems like a financially efficient opportunity to do a better job with my business, in terms of both the cost of investment and cost of operations, etc. But I've still got a problem with having the right talent pool there to manage it.
Last week we had testimony from a number of different institutions at different committees who talked about the work being done at the post-secondary level today.
I wonder if you could talk briefly about what it's going to take to give business—small business, or SMEs—the talent pool to help them advance their businesses and stay current but continue to advance in everything they're trying to do. What do we need to get the next generation trained to help us do a better job with SMEs across this country?