I would have to echo many of those comments. As well, this would be an opportunity to establish some sort of a national vision for how we actually do post-secondary education in Canada. It's rather horrific that we don't have one if we're trying to be a competitive economy.
Having an accord, an act, whatever.... There are a lot of phrases that go around for what this agreement should look like. But having such a thing would obviously be very beneficial. I think within that there should be some clearly stated goals. A goal, for instance, that we would certainly support would be an idea of what percentage students should be paying of the total cost of education in Canada. Right now, it's very different, depending on the jurisdiction. You have some places that are reasonably low, such as Quebec and Newfoundland. You have places, of course, in Nova Scotia that are very high. Of the total cost of education, 42.6% is what students pay here, whereas for even university administrators, many would say that 30% is probably the top. What we want to see is an actual accounting for value. That's what I would mean by looking at the percentage students are paying. The question is, what are they getting back for the money they're putting in?