Thank you.
Ms. Josephs, you made a comment about entrepreneurship and the fact that entrepreneurship should be in the K-to-12 curriculum. That's the smartest thing I've heard here today. Good for you for saying it.
It's not that everybody else's comments weren't important; let's clarify that comment.
I have a huge level of frustration when I hear the talk of youth unemployment and underemployment because I grew up in rural Nova Scotia where everybody was simply expected to work, and everyone could work and did work. Even when unemployment was 15% and 18% everywhere else in the world, somehow everybody found a job because they had to in order to survive.
In Nova Scotia, we have a new program between the community college system and the universities where they've taken your point on entrepreneurship and they have allowed people who want to enter the skilled trades to take their two years of a skilled trade to start an apprenticeship, or to work in the skilled trades, and that two years counts as two years toward an undergraduate degree if they decide to go back to university. I suspect other provinces have similar programs. That's been in place for a while now, and that has been a fantastic program for students. They come out, they have built up skills in the community college system that allow them to work for a good living wage and to continue in that trade if they care to. However, if they want to go back to university for an undergraduate degree, their first two years are already covered.
Have you been an advocate of that? Do you follow that? How extensive is that across the country?