Thank you for the other recommendations. I think they're quite specific.
Let me go back to my friends at CASA for just a second.
I think we've covered a good discussion of the real need in Canada. This whole consultation that we're doing as a committee is really about competitiveness and taking advantage of the opportunities that Canada has in a rapidly changing world, and certainly maximizing our human potential has to be number one among that.
On the whole issue of post-secondary education--and I include community colleges, obviously--skills upgrading, training, and apprenticeships, there is a lot of work we need to do. I think the number one need is a needs-based system.
Beyond that, though, you mentioned the Canada millennium scholarship, and you indicated that not everybody would necessarily agree. I know there is another student organization in Canada that would basically say scrap it, but you have some reasoned points of view here and I appreciate that.
I'd like to talk about the whole area of student financing, over and above needs-based grants. We have student loans. We have an amalgam of programs across the country, provincial and federal. Do you have a sense of what we should do with student financing? Is there something innovative that you guys can recommend we do in handling student loans, and specifically the ever-increasing burden of student debt?