I thank you very kindly for your comments today, but to me the purpose of this committee was to come up with some answers regarding the demographic problems of aging in the workforce.
Granted, there are a number of serious, valid concerns--equity, fairness, working conditions, or whatever--and to me they might all be, and probably are, valid. There's validity in them all, but our concern as a committee and my concern as a committee member with the mandate of this committee is to clearly establish whether or not we have a demographic time bomb on our hands with regard to having the capacity to staff. We can argue working conditions, we can argue salaries, we can argue whatever between private sector and public sector or whatever, but we need to know whether or not we have the capacity to handle it within the public service now--the capacity to attain or to retain. What are your thoughts on that?