Thanks, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for taking the time today and sharing their experiences. We're all very grateful.
I'd like to stick with the labour theme here. A number of colleagues on the committee have brought up some very fascinating points, and perhaps we can even get an answer to Mr. Williams' last question.
I'll start by noting that earlier today, Stats Canada released its job figures for May, which showed an unemployment rate of 5.1%. That's now the lowest unemployment rate on record since we've been tracking it. In a way, it's a really positive economic indicator, but obviously, we have these terrible employee shortfalls, the million missing employees that Mr. Williams mentioned.
I'd like to tie this back to the federal and provincial governments. I want to direct this question to Ralph Suppa, Tania Johnston and perhaps Dr. Tremblay as well for her perspective.
How do the federal and provincial credentials and credentialling processes impact your ability to hire? That's about the credentials and what we can do better. Let's expand that to what we just heard about foreign credentialling and how we can acknowledge and accept foreign credentials on a faster basis.
If you'd like to jump in, either Ralph or Tania, please do so.