Thank you, Madam Chair.
I heard what Ms. Verret and Ms. Whetung said about the high school completion rate. This reminds me a lot of our hearings on H1N1 prevention measures. We were trying to solve a public health problem while a number of communities did not even have running water. The foundation was lacking.
We are talking about health human resources, but the foundation is not there. Ms. Anderson was clear: we cannot train people to become doctors and nurses, if, at a basic level, they are not able to complete the natural sciences, biology, chemistry and physics courses they need for that health training.
Before you tell us what we need to do for people who are in a position to go to school, I would like to know what we can do, at a basic level, to increase the high school completion rate. I think we need to address that issue before moving on to something else.