Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to you all. Thank you for taking the time to be with us this morning.
The first comment is that I noticed that both the Council of Ontario Universities and the Ontario College of Art and Design recommended special funding for aboriginal students. I definitely agree with you on that.
My first question is for Ms. Patterson.
I don't think you mentioned it, but your second recommendation is that we have an international student recruitment strategy. I agree with you a thousand per cent on that, because I think other countries, notably the U.K. and Australia, have been eating our lunch. I'm told that the U.K. has ten times more foreign students than Canada does, and it's less than two times bigger than us in population. And they have major campaigns for branding and advertising in India, China, and Indonesia. Why have we done so badly?
I mean, I support your recommendation, but is it because of the provincial jurisdiction for education? Is it perhaps because of our immigration system? I don't know. Can you tell me why we have done so badly compared with other countries?