Industry committee  Yes, for core-age workers, which is 25 to 54-year-olds, the ratio of people employed to population of that age group is roughly around 82%, which is about the highest we've ever seen.

Industry committee  It's accessible to us. I haven't looked at it closely, but like I said before, there are about one and a half unemployed people for every job vacancy right now.

Industry committee  There are a number that we would identify. One we're working on with them and ESDC is information on the demand for bilingual workers, especially outside of Quebec. We're thinking about the francophone populations in official language minority communities and how we can leverage potentially online job postings or maybe update some of the job vacancy surveys to capture that information, but there are a number of others.

Industry committee  We work very closely in partnership with Statistics Canada to identify what the labour market information needs are of various organizations. They're focused on delivering that data and that information out there, but we help them identify what's missing and relevant. I mean, this committee is a good example of that.

Industry committee  That is an important question. I would say that there are a number of factors that we play at. One is trying to identify the best practices in different provinces. Indeed, I would agree that Quebec is a very advanced ecosystem of organizations. Of course, Institut du Québec collects its own information as well.

Industry committee  There are a number of tools out there already. Certainly, this is primarily the domain of Statistics Canada to be collecting this and providing that. One of the reasons we were created by the federal-provincial-territorial ministries was to better meet the needs in the provinces and territories, since they are responsible for so much of the labour market policies.

Industry committee  Thank you very much for the question. It is very difficult to get accurate information on anybody who is undocumented or in a non-standard living or working situation. The other example that comes to mind is the agricultural sector, where there are many people working in non-traditional arrangements or, for example, who are temporary foreign workers and people living in communal residences.

Industry committee  It's hard to say, because we don't have clear information on where the undocumented workers are, how many there are or the skill sets they have. I will say that, if they were to go through a process with IRCC to become documented, we'd start having very good information on those people and would get a sense of who is missing as they go through that process.

Industry committee  No, I'm sorry. I'm not familiar with it.

Industry committee  Good afternoon. I would like to thank the members of the committee for inviting me today. It is a real honour to speak to you about the most pressing labour market challenges facing all of Canada, and the labour market information ecosystem. I represent the Labour Market Information Council, or LMIC for short.