Industry committee  I would agree with what people have said. I might just add one thing, being from a university. I think we also don't do much to keep our foreign students. We spend a lot of time training these people, and, unfortunately, we don't keep them that much, and that's another source of

Industry committee  Well, I think some people have mentioned the various solutions. We mentioned immigration as one of the solutions, but it's not the only one. Actually, I would say that is the main thing that we need to take into account. There's not one solution. There are many. The immigrants,

Industry committee  I think that's a huge challenge. I had a woman at my house recently who mentioned all the difficult challenges that she went through in terms of discrimination and everything. I have also worked on women in the IT sector, so I have worked on various sectors in which women are in

Industry committee  We're talking about children.

Industry committee  I'm just going to complete on this and let it go to the other witness after. We think of children, but also a lot of women take care of aging parents and aging spouses, and I think we're not doing so much on that in Canada. Companies—we did a survey on that—are more and more con

Industry committee  We have already started to implement measures. For example, we don't tax additional income as much. Indeed, when people think that as soon as they make a dollar, that dollar goes away, that's a major impediment and constraint. I think we recognize that aspect. Other older worker

Industry committee  Very well.

Industry committee  I can tell you that European countries are more involved in working time. France, for example, has intervened a lot in terms of the reduction and organization of working time. Belgium and the Nordic countries, such as Norway and Sweden, have also intervened in this respect. So I

Industry committee  Do you mean internationally, from other countries?

Industry committee  Well, there's interesting data. If we look at Europe, a certain number of European countries had very low participation rates. I'd mention particularly Finland, Belgium and France. Of course, as in Canada, at some time there was high unemployment, and governments even put in plac

Industry committee  Yes, definitely.

Industry committee  Okay. I will conclude. I'll skip one or two paragraphs...not so much. To conclude, as a labour economist, but also a researcher on creativity and innovation in organizations, I would call, actually, for public policy that would support the participation of all age groups in the

Industry committee  Hello. To begin, I want to thank the committee for inviting me to appear. Usually when I am invited to Ottawa, most of the participants are anglophones. I hear a lot of French names today. I had decided to speak English today in order to speak more directly to those present.