One of the success stories is seen when we partner, either as first nation urban people or with women's associations or with employers, to have more successful outcomes. On our own we're silos, but when we better case-manage in communities and when we partner, as friendship centres, with other community agencies or other employment training partners, that's when we're going to have success, frankly.
We have to focus on education, as we do in Ontario. There are a bunch of alternative schools there that take kids who have dropped out of the public education system, get them back into the friendship centres and into schools, partner with local school boards, and actually graduate kids. They're getting those kids on into post-secondary educations.
There are some kids in downtown Toronto who were street kids. After two years of going through an alternative school program, they ended up getting into an access program at the U of T or into other programs, with Lori Budge, at Humber, and elsewhere. It's a tremendous success story.
If you want to talk about employability, I would argue that the number one priority this committee should have is single women with children. If you get that young mother graduated through a program and into a well-paying job, you change her life and you change her child's life. Having been raised by a single mother, I can assure you that this mother will not allow her child not to succeed. She'll know the benefits and what it takes, and it will be a remarkable outcome for all of Canada. That's what I would say would be the ultimate success story.