Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'd like to begin by thanking the committee for the invitation. I commend its members for wanting to hear from a wide cross-section of Canadian society, including younger Canadians like me. My name is Emma Rose Bienvenu. I am a recent graduate of McGill law. I also

Human Resources committee  Was the interpretation the only problem? Could the English speakers hear me?

Human Resources committee  If it can make things easier, I could let the other students speak first.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I believe we have resolved things. Once again, I thank the members of the committee for the invitation and I commend them on wanting to hear from a wide cross-section of Canadian society, including younger Canadians like me. My remarks today are going to focus on thr

Human Resources committee  Thanks for the question. I'm glad you read the article. For those who haven't, the basic point I made was that, to survive any deep economic crisis, firms need to lay off their least productive workers, automate what can be automated, and in a pandemic, make everything else remot

Human Resources committee  Yes. I think even before the virus, because of increasing wages, in certain manufacturing countries like China, you had automated factories. That was already starting a trend where, in manufacturing, it was really difficult to keep overseas for different labour reasons. I think m

Human Resources committee  I would say two things. One point I tried to make in the retraining focus was that in Canada, for good reason, going to university is great, but we've tended to focus on these very long, multi-year, broad degrees that often don't very closely match the skills and demand in the

Human Resources committee  That's a really good question, and I can think of quite a few. For every sector of the economy that is going to suffer in this crisis, there's often going to be a few that will bloom, right? I think any technology that enables remote work and remote learning is going to do reall

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Ms. Chabot. This is a very important issue. As I too am from Quebec, it's a question that concerns me too from time to time. To answer your question about the acceleration of automation in the manufacturing sector, I think that acceleration will be caused by the great

Human Resources committee  You're absolutely right. As you read in the article, I think telework will become much more widespread in Canada and elsewhere. The experience brought about by necessity proved that telework is a very interesting solution for people who had not thought about it. I am thinking in

Human Resources committee  I think so, yes.

Human Resources committee  I agree. I would also say a word on the question of whether the student benefit should be the same as the CERB. In my experience, I think it was particularly frustrating for the students who were graduating into the pandemic. They had a job waiting for them that was then cancelle

Human Resources committee  I do. The way it was designed structurally, as I understand it, was that it was for people who were working and who lost a job, whereas I think what was trying to be expressed was that it was for people if they lost a job. For many students, the way the job market works, particul

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. I believed it before the pandemic, and I believe it now.