Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Mr. Rainer, you talked before about the Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia and the 80% graduation rate and how things have improved over the last three years. In my previous profession I was an educator in a school that had a fairly large first nations population, and they were doing very well, particularly the last couple of years that I was there, because the band had made education a priority. They had put together an early childhood education program with a lot of resources, so the students were arriving at school with a lot of skills that the rest of the population, quite frankly, didn't have in many cases. They had resources paid for by the band put into the public school system so the students had extra supports, particularly in the area of literacy.
Mr. Rainer, you talked about essential skills being the biggest hurdle. Would you not agree that you have to start early if you're going to provide those essential skills? Would that be accurate?