I'll just briefly add a couple of points. I think Mr. Daniel points to a very interesting point about our educational system. I think in some ways our society as a whole is not reaching its potential. There are a certain number of kids who don't graduate from high school, but in Toronto, for example, 50% of the young people who graduate from high school do not go on to post-secondary education thereafter. That's a real concern.
One of the things we're doing at Alliance of Sector Councils is developing a curriculum for grades 11 and 12 so that kids who don't go on to post-secondary education are able to have some job-ready skills. That has really been quite effective and useful in terms of being able to make school more relevant and interesting to people who don't want to be sticking in school until the end of grade 12. Secondly, it gets them a job fairly soon afterward.
The other part we really have to deal with is changing our culture. Perhaps because we've had a public education system across Canada that is fairly well developed, employers have stayed out of the game of education. We've had a system in which the state deals with education and employers employ, and the two don't mix.
I think we really need to look at the two mixing and at more of a European model. There employers are actively involved in everything from literacy training to lifelong learning. As we have considerable technological advances happening in most sectors, lifelong learning becomes much more important, so employers have to be engaged in that with their workers all through their working career.