Absolutely, and I don't think what I said contradicts that at all. Absolutely, if you want to have a higher standard of living you need higher productivity, and a key driver of productivity is the upskilling of the labour force, higher educational attainment. Canada does quite well in that regard, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
Linked to that, international experience strongly supports the view that giving educational opportunities to the disadvantaged has a positive effect on economic performance. Often the countries that have done well in terms of productivity growth have low levels of illiteracy. The great advantage about helping the disadvantaged is that you have positive effects on both equity--in other words, we're a fairer society--and efficiency, that is, these people function better and make higher incomes and improve productivity. So it's really win-win to help the disadvantaged from both a fairness perspective and a productivity perspective.