Thank you very much. There's so much to talk about and so little time.
Thank you for the time you've spent coming here and preparing, and also for the time you're already spending on the Hill working with us to make sure we have the attention being put into the right places.
You've given us a lot for our report already, but I wanted to expand on the “creative and entrepreneurial citizens” approach, and it's the first pillar in our budget, where we're looking at a more innovative Canada.
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce, on May 2, released a report, Small Business: Too Big to Ignore. They talked about the three major items in Ontario that are stopping the SMEs of fewer than 100 people from growing: 39% of the SMEs with fewer than 100 people are having trouble hiring people, they're having trouble identifying the people who could fill their gaps, and that's up from 28% of the businesses in 2014 that had similar challenges.
What are you seeing on the labour market front, having information on businesses so that you know your students are heading into careers where there are jobs? What can we do about helping or connecting you to the businesses that are having so much trouble finding people?