I'm very glad you asked that question.
The tools are not there. I would like to refer you to our Lessons in Learning publication, “Canada's biggest economic challenge: Improving workplace learning”, in which we set out the instruments that Canada would actually need to improve workplace training and education. It was put up on our website just this week as a matter of fact
You're quite right, employers are not doing their share in Canada. They do need some help from governments, but they also need help from employees. Again, one of the principles I mentioned a moment ago in my presentation is that workplace education and training needs to be co-financed, not by the state alone or by the employer alone, but there needs to be a partnership—which includes the learner, by the way, who will benefit individually from that process.
Martin was able to point out, as we've pointed out in our report, that Canada is well below the OECD average in every aspect you can think of in terms of workplace education and training, not just with respect to the amount of money per worker that's invested by employers and by employees, but also with respect to the percentage of firms that invest. Most remarkable of all is the fact that those people who need training the most are those who are the least likely to get it. People who are offered training are those with a post-secondary education, usually a university degree. The people who I think are referred to in the literacy context as having problems—the 42% who are below the bar in literacy—are those who will not get offered workplace education and training.
I don't think this is a very difficult area of policy to work in, actually. It's one of the easier ones with regard to post-secondary education, but we haven't given ourselves the tools to do it. I would be delighted, once you've had a chance to look at our appraisal of it and at some of our recommendations, to have a discussion with you about what the next steps would be.