Thank you, Mr. Dykstra.
Our economic plan for Canada is called Advantage Canada, which we published in October 2006. It seeks to create five advantages for Canada, one of which is the knowledge advantage, and we're going ahead and implementing that for each budget. We're doing more this year, with the new Vanier post-graduate scholarships, more with Canada chairs and funding Canada chairs. Indeed part of the immigration reform we're doing is to help facilitate students being able to study in Canada, particularly doing post-graduate work. We need more bright people. We need more master's degrees. We need more PhDs in Canada. We need to expand that for the sake of our economy and economic growth going forward.
I was very pleased to receive a letter after the budget from the Ontario association of university presidents, praising the budget. Good things have been said by the College Student Alliance, the Canadian Federation of Students, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and others.
I meet with university presidents from time to time as well, and we consult with them. We have them to our advisory meetings and so on. It's vitally important, from an economic point of view and other points of view, that we make our university system, our post-secondary education system, including the colleges, as vibrant as possible.