I can't comment on specific programs in every province, but I can tell you about my own experience in my province. Career education begins in a very formal way when students are in grade 9, but there's also work that's done even earlier. There's a lot of work done in assisting students to develop portfolios, to become aware of the job market, to do the kinds of self-assessment activities where they learn their strengths, what their likes are in terms of the kind of workplace they would enjoy, all of those kinds of things, to try to get them organized to know what type of work they might like to do and what the requirements are for getting into that field.
There's always a need for good information, and if that were available from the federal government, I think that's something that would be valuable for schools to use.