Well, solving the problem today would be a big job. Many strategies would be required.
I fear that these people are being overlooked. I fear that we're not giving them options, opportunities. We're not identifying them. We're not giving them the hand they need. They need to be brought into education. Lifelong learning is what they need; I agree totally. In fact, we educate as many adults as we do young people. Some colleges have an average age in the thirties.
It seems to me that your concept of lifelong learning is very much an element of a national vision or a national strategy. There could be a multitude of national strategies, and different ones would apply in different jurisdictions. But this vision of a more highly educated country is really essential if we're going to solve these problems, with many, many strategies.
The prospect for Canadian business is quite bleak. Immigration is just a little bit of help. We need hundreds of thousands of people in different sectors where people are retiring and there's no one bringing up the rear. This is a national problem, and it needs a national vision and a national enterprise to fix it. It needs everybody, all the partners—the provinces, municipalities, educational institutions, and civil society organizations. We have to identify this as the principal economic constraint facing our country and find a way of collaborating toward a solution.
We've fixed many social issues. We've fixed drinking and driving. We've fixed smoking. We can fix education through a national strategy and vision.