On the brief that we submitted, we show that the cost of accepting biologically unnecessary vulnerability for kids, so accepting 30% of kids coming into school not ready to learn, equals in one province alone about $400 billion over about 60 years. Across the country that's a cost of $3 trillion. That's fine for me as an economic growth strategy, where you can actually grab $3 trillion in growth. It's in the minds and bodies of the kids that are in kindergarten today. We can decide not to invest in it, but that's what we're forgoing.
On September 28th, 2009. See this statement in context.