Right now, in Saskatchewan, we have a significant challenge in getting enough people into our post-secondary facilities, including everyone from apprentices all the way up to doctors. We face the challenge because the capital investment by our provincial government and its partners—and federally, in some situations—has not been significant enough to keep up with the demand. Our argument for this strategic investment by the federal government right now is that even though our economy is still going very well, there are more unemployed people here than there were a year ago. Our perspective would be to get those people into training now so that when we come out of this recession we will see greater productivity out of those individuals, for their own benefit as well as for Canada.
I understand post-secondary education, by and large, has been a provincial government responsibility, but in the era of fiscal stimulus programming by the federal government, we think this would be a brilliant move, and one that would not only deliver advantages to Canadians individually—