At the secondary school level we have very few.
I would invite input from this committee on whether or not the $8 billion that the Government of Canada transfers to provinces in the Canada social transfer, in part to support post-secondary education, ought to have at least some reporting requirements, if not conditions in terms of labour market outcomes.
I note that the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance chaired by our brilliant colleague James Rajotte has recommended this repeatedly, Ms. Sims. I have raised this with the provinces.
Let me put it to you this way. We are increasing the CST to provinces by 3% a year, and yet when I look at many of the in-demand programs in the polytechnics and community colleges, some of them, such as power engineering at NAIT or welding at BCIT, are turning away as many as 90% of the qualified applicants for those programs. Welding at BCIT has a two-year backlog, even though those are in-demand and good-paying jobs.
This makes no sense. I quite frankly doubt that there's a two-year backlog to get into a sociology program at Simon Fraser University. So I'm asking the provinces, and B.C. is doing this, to begin looking at allocating their PSE resources at least in part to line up with labour market outcomes.