Let me just touch on a couple of things.
First of all, Canada's birth rate is around 337,000 people a year, growing at about 3% to 4%. We're looking at 330,000 to 350,000 young people coming through the system. We need the ability to be able to impact on those people and make sure they understand what the options are as they come through, because decisions are being made in grades 7 and 8 that prevent them from going to post-secondary education in a lot of cases. Having the right information available at the right level, getting to the primary schools, the high schools...and that's about as late as you can go in terms of having people make decisions on careers. They're being streamed out at that stage.
Also, we need a national approach to skills upgrading. I realize this is Canada, I realize we have the federal-provincial negotiations, but we need a national approach. We are not 13 countries competing with India; we are Canada. We have to take a look at a national approach that will make Canada successful on this.
I've used up my 45 seconds.