Thank you.
I want to thank you both for your comments, because you've triggered a good policy debate, which we should have more of. It's been said by many people that we've been functioning on a patchwork of tax exemptions and tax deferrals and then the CESGs and CAGs and learning bonds are thrown in, and students are facing a broken package of financial assistance.
Just to pursue Mr. Lessard's comments, because I was going there, and those were probably my recommendations in pursuing discussions to improve this bill, I'm wondering if we could go one step further and have a transition for low income. Low-income families are defined by the national child benefit supplement. So if you were under 18, could that family receive...? Could there be a possibility of having, for example, full tuition for those students in the low-income category, and then a graduated system of smaller grants as you go up in income, as I think Ireland is doing?
Mr. Chong mentioned France earlier, where there are smaller classes. I did post-graduate studies in France, and it's free; there are no tuition costs. Ireland is going in that direction and they're seeing their productivity and the ability of their young people to compete, and even to educate Canadian students, which Canada hasn't been smart enough to do in some respects.
What would you think of that kind of modification to facilitate it even more, to make it even more useful for students?