Human Resources committee  I guess my recommendation is that we don't forget about the people at the basic skills level, which 40% of Canadians are at. We know that people need skills at level three, and 40% of Canadians are at levels one and two. Just to comment, we also know that low-literacy people spe

Human Resources committee  Right. Thank you.

Human Resources committee  No, and I don't know of any other group that was consulted. In fact, we were strung along. We had expected our grants to come around April or May, as they normally do for the fiscal year. We were told there was no call for proposals, that it was delayed. We waited until there wa

Human Resources committee  Unfortunately, it will be probably too little too late, because we're already seeing people leave the field. That's expertise that has been developed over the last twenty years. I've been in the field for fifteen years, and I've seen some really good people leave lately. Our oth

Human Resources committee  I offer my apologies to the committee. We were in our provincial literacy conference until Saturday of this week, and we spent until last night writing our speech for this presentation, so we did not get time to put our notes into French. I apologize for that.

Human Resources committee  Imagine. Imagine a Canada where everyone reads. Imagine a Canada where everyone writes. Imagine a Canada where all children have people who read to them every day. Imagine a Canada where language is plain. Imagine a Canada where the workplace is safe. Imagine a Canada where worke