Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Martin-Laforge and Mr. Thompson, thank you for being here this morning.
I liked the first part of your speech, when you talked about youth. You talked a great deal about young people who go somewhere else to study and who wish to come back to their communities, but they have a hard time finding jobs, unfortunately. We are probably talking about young graduates and apprentices. The first years are vital for young people like that. If their first job is in another region, far from their communities, they will often settle there. We end up losing a segment of the youth population. When a community loses its young people, it loses its future and even its soul .
How could we strengthen employment and support those young people so that they stay in their communities and settle there for good?