Let me just give a quick response
I think the universities and the colleges no longer are agencies of social mobility in the country. The number of students from low-income families across Canada, proportionately, going to higher education has not changed in 10 years. I think we've really lost that public purpose. The reason for that is partly that the funding framework that was put in place simply doesn't meet those kinds of needs.
The other side of the equation is that the colleges and universities don't have the capacity. For example, we have launched an aboriginal learning centre in downtown Winnipeg, which has a major computer program to help overcome digital divides, but that's all privately funded because there is no public funding for those kinds of outreach initiatives. Yet what we know is that if we can break that barrier where we have 60% of our students not completing their high school, then not only would their personal achievement, personal income, and personal contribution improve, but so would the entire economy.
That is where I say the system is a little bit broken, and you have to fix it.