Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, all, for being here.
It's wonderful to be in Winnipeg and in Manitoba. I'm struck with how useful and relevant it is for parliamentarians to get across the country to learn more about the kinds of stories that you, Ms. Constant, tell us about communities, and in some cases remote communities. There is also the situation in Churchill, which is of ongoing concern.
I'm going to reprise some questions that I asked in the first round, because to be honest, Mr. Chairman, I think that as we go across the country we can now detect a real theme of a tremendous mismatch between jobs that are available in Canada and people who are looking for jobs. We hear stories from all over the country of under-employed and under-educated indigenous Canadians, immigrant populations, and people with credentials but no professional certification. Then we hear from the employer community or the business community about skills that are required in order to innovate, and to prosper, and to expand. We hear this in the agricultural communities, and certainly in my province of Quebec. The temporary foreign worker debate continues to rage.
Frankly, it's been a couple of decades since the federal government devolved labour market monies to the provinces, and I'm beginning to wonder whether this entire philosophy needs to be reviewed. We met with the bank economists last week, and it's pretty clear that we have a ceiling on our growth as a country because of demographics. We have an aging workforce.
To hear that within our population there are people who struggle to get the right training, or the relevant training, is a source of immense frustration to us on this side, as it is to people throughout the House of Commons.
I'm going to direct my question to Mr. Dandewich and Mr. Leitch, but anyone else who would care to comment would be most welcome.
How do we get at this conundrum? This seems to me to be an emerging crisis in the country and one that we need to address and address urgently.