My fear then is that if we don't have enough businesses that are scaled, there are very few people who've been very successful at it and we have a lot of people who have experience with failure. Failure is very good, as well; we always need failure in order to learn. However, one of the things I learned in the military is that no true great leaders are ever born. You can train to be a leader or a manager, and you receive that continuous training throughout your time in the military.
Are we not doing something perhaps in our post-secondary training? For instance, we often see students who do a sociology degree—I'm an anthropologist, I love anthropology, but I wouldn't profess to know how to run the Caisse de dépôt or to be able to do what is necessary to manage the Canada pension plan. I understand civilizations and societies and how they function, but maybe my skills, if I combined them with something else...? Maybe we're not using our post-secondary training. We have good elite schools—McGill, Toronto and a few others—but maybe the other ones have too many people doing too many things, which isn't going to lead to the long-term success we need in our economy.
Maybe you'd like to talk about that for a bit.