Fair enough.
Now, it hasn't been too, too many years since I graduated from high school. I took the full suite of Ontario academic credit courses: physics, chemistry, biology, math, and the like. They were pretty interesting courses. However, in practical life, despite the fact that I took physics, my career was in business. The only time physics came into play was when I climbed the ladder and I needed to know what gravity was, right? So it became pretty helpful there.
But most of my experience in life is actually around fiscal or financial literacy, and a lot of my friends and colleagues would probably feel the same way. I see Mrs. Gosse, who I believe is in the right direction, but I just wonder if the federation feels that it should lobby the government or ministry more to provide our high school students with that fundamental core.
I know that the Canadian Teachers' Federation talked about the Royal Bank or big banks providing that. And that's well and good, and it's great that they do it, but when we talk about that core component of education that you can use for the rest of your life—and again, the co-op programs, OYAP, and so on are excellent programs—do you have any thoughts about maybe coming up with some new ideas to provide financial literacy for high school students?
I'm asking this because if we did a general poll of students, I'm suggesting that none would know what a tax-free savings account was, and possibly a few would know what an RRSP was, and certainly a mutual fund would likely knock the lights out of them.
So what are your thoughts on that?