Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a question for Mr. Cappon.
In your report here—I just perused it, and it's quite impressive—I note with interest that we have the highest, or above average, funding for students for post-secondary education compared to the OECD average. That was somewhat of a surprise to me, because the perception out there is that this is not the case. I'm not sure if you had a chance yesterday to hear our budgetary announcement with respect to funding for PSE. We've announced that we are significantly increasing funding through the Canada social transfer for post-secondary education and training. I think it amounts to some $16 billion over the next seven years in additional funding.
I'm wondering if you could comment. From perusing this, I know the report doesn't identify funding as the single most critical component. Maybe you could elaborate to this committee a bit more on what you mean by the need for better metrics for assessing performance, how that might work. Would that go through a council of ministers of education? What sorts of metrics need to be defined? How would that be coordinated?