Thank you so much, Mr. Albas.
Absolutely, I totally agree. Yes, we suffer from that problem. Are there solutions that you can come up with? Yes. Let's be cautious. These are shared jurisdiction issues, so the federal government can't act alone. But what you're proposing is my ultimate vision: a data dashboard, guidance counsellors, parents, students, employers who know. These are, after all, publicly funded post-secondary institutions. Canada has 97 publicly funded universities and 135-odd community colleges, polytechnics, and institutes publicly funded through federal transfer dollars and provincial funding. Why does the citizen, the learner, the employer, not have accessible, reliable, real-time labour market data? Currently, as much as we believe in Statistics Canada and are delighted that the census is back, it takes four to five years to polish any data. Today, on apprenticeship, we are coming up with policy solutions based on data culled in 2002. As a key proponent of the Canada apprentice loan, I think it's very easy. Every time the federal government issues an incentive grant, a completion grant, why don't we have a student identifier number? We know nothing about the pathways of our publicly supported learners.