Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all of our witnesses for being here. We have only a limited amount of time, so I'll try to focus my questions.
To start with, Ms. Jamieson, I read your biography, and you are the first female first nations person in Canada to receive a law degree. I want to congratulate you on that. That's a great sign of success. I'm sure when you went off to law school and looked around, you didn't see many people like you sitting around you, obviously, but you still managed to succeed and get through, and have gone on to such great success.
In Nova Scotia, and Mr. Cuzner would support me on this, we're actually having some success working with first nations youth and getting them to graduate from high school. We have a really high percentage compared with other places in the country.
This is anecdotal, but I'm just wondering...because you have a lot of experience with first nations students at the post-secondary level. Of the students we are sending to the post-secondary level, we're having trouble keeping a lot of them there. I believe there are some barriers once they get to the university level that preclude them from completing their education at that level.
As I say, it's anecdotal, because I've been working with students as an educator for a long time, particularly first nations students. But am I accurate in saying this? Does the data support it?