We do, actually. In all of the work of CCL, I should hasten to say, we don't do a lot of interprovincial comparisons, because we think it's more useful to look at Canada as a whole and compare Canada with other countries. But we have quite a few comparisons among provinces for K to 12 education, which are actually done mostly by those in my previous occupation, in which I was the CEO of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. I spent eight years there.
CMEC does standardized testing of students at age 13 and age 16 in all provinces and territories. It also does standardized testing internationally, comparing Canadian students with students in other OECD countries. Actually, perhaps to your surprise, Canadian students fare quite well in comparison with students from other countries at age 15, which leads us to the conclusion that a lot of the problems occur after people come out of school.
We've done some studies to validate that as well, and what we find is that the decline of skills among Canadians after they've completed education, whether it's school or college or university, is faster than in other OECD countries. That leads us to the conclusion that the problems are not necessarily mainly in the schools, but mainly in the workplace or in the community or in the lack of the culture of learning, including of resources, in the community.
I'm not arguing that the education system is perfect, but I think it goes beyond that.