Can you restart my time?
I heard two very interesting—and I think contradictory—comments here from two of the panellists and I want to drill down to that. Again, focusing on your comments coming back, how do we make it a first choice?
Dr. Dostie said that the earlier you start, but not too young, a familiarization with it...and we look at countries like Germany, Austria, and others who actually use tech training as their sole focus. You are in the elite when you are in tech training, maths, and sciences. We should start to re-introduce it back to the curriculum of elementary and high schools.
But then I heard Mr. Crocker say it's a dead-end program in high schools and it's inappropriate to stream.
And we heard it in the previous panel, that academia seems to have shifted away from all this tech training, and now we're wondering why we're in this situation that we hear about now, where there's a lack of skills and the low graduation rates. There are people going in, but it's much later, after they realize they've graduated and they really don't have a lot of employable skill sets.
Do any of you have comments?
Mr. Meredith.