Thank you, Mr. Bains. That goes to the heart of why the Trudeau foundation was created.
Our country is well served by having as many of our leaders as possible being well educated. The scholarships at the Trudeau foundation, especially the way they are joined with the mentorships and the fellowships, are aimed at having.... They're already brilliant university students when we choose them, but giving them an exposure to how ideas can percolate and move outside the university world is core to the experience of the Trudeau foundation.
As I was explaining, they were regularly exposed to round tables with senior civil servants to understand how civil servants take problems and try to digest them and then turn them into policy. With these kinds of business leaders, activists, with the courts, in many ways the foundation was trying to amplify and extend the university experience into other realms so that these scholars were empowered, even if only as university students, to be much better versed in communicating outside their departments and in engaging in the world outside. Now we're seeing that the first rounds of scholars are prominent Canadians—many in universities, some outside. Some have become mayors of towns in Canada. The experience is one of creating leaders, creating people who serve the country through and because of reason.