Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for participating tonight.
My first question is for you, Dr. Blit. In your research paper, “Can Skilled Immigration Raise Innovation? Evidence from Canadian Cities”, you highlighted in an abstract that science, engineering, technology or mathematics (STEM)-educated immigrants are employed in STEM jobs, but that this impact is limited because only a third of this population is employed in STEM jobs.
Can you please expand on this finding and why this seems to be the case, in accordance with your research?