It's hard to want to take issue with many of these things. Certainly, the issue of low literacy in Canada has a surprisingly large incidence. I think the numbers are quite high in Atlantic Canada, and in New Brunswick as well. I believe that is why it's a preoccupation not only of ourselves, but also of the provincial Government of New Brunswick. I think a part of this relates to the incidence of employment in the province--from the deck itself-- and less to the preponderance of an aboriginal population, which is a correlate, or a large immigrant population. So I think it does raise the policy question of whether or not federal and provincial governments have appropriate public policy and programs aimed at addressing this problem.
I would simply add that what gives us some satisfaction is that, by and large, Canada's school system performs very well, although, surprisingly, you can find people who can graduate from university and college and actually perform poorly on literacy, which is really not what one would have assumed to be the case.
But generally speaking, by our PISA scores, in Atlantic Canada as well as elsewhere our school system is performing pretty well. I think the work that we put here suggests that where we really need to focus our attention is on adult re-skilling, adult education.