Thank you.
Thank you so much for coming.
I agree with my colleagues from the Conservatives, the Liberals and the Bloc that this should be worker-centred, so I'm going to do something different. I'm going to try to limit my conversation so that I can hear from the workers, because I have heard all their opinions many times.
Mr. McGowan, I'm going to start with you. The Financial Post of January 22 said that the ongoing exodus of workers from oil and gas is no longer cyclical; it is structural. Even as oil and gas are making record profits right now, they are not reinvesting in workers, and we're seeing continual drops and planned drops in the workforce.
Would you say that the transition is not something theoretical or ideological and that it's a fact that is happening on the ground now?