I still do.
I tell him that he needs a backup plan, so what we talk about is a backup plan. We talk about university and we also talk about skilled trades.
I ask questions. I ask him what he wants to do. What he wants to do, again, is to be a hockey player. I'm all about encouraging him to follow his dreams and maybe play a bit of junior A, which I can talk to Rodger about a little later.
He mentioned to me that maybe he'd play a little junior A—and I was surprised by this—and he also said that maybe he would also get a skilled trade. Now, that shocked me because his mother and I have always groomed him for university because the perception out there is that if your children go to university, they'll make more money and have a better life than in a skilled trade. That's the perception that's out there.
You say that on page six. On page seven, you compare wages, how the average weekly earnings of a skilled trades worker are consistently higher than the average for all occupations over the last decade. As a member of this committee and as a parent, my question is: how do the weekly wages of the skilled trades compare to the university graduate? Answer that first and I'll give you another one.