Mr. McMillan, at Mohawk College in Hamilton I chaired a labour advisory board, and you were speaking about advisory boards. I also was a school board trustee, and we had 28% dropout in our schools. When we asked kids in grades 10 and 11 what their expectation was, they were going to program video games or win the lottery. They're out of touch with reality by a long shot. We have to find a way to bring them together. I'm a great believer in the community college system and the ability that organization has to give some hope to these people, but do we need a federal program of some sort to bridge the ones who have dropped out?
On October 4th, 2011. See this statement in context.