Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for your presentation.
I'm going to go back to the speaking notes from October 19, from the departments that came before the committee. They're actually quoting from our next guest that their feeling is that one of the main reasons for the lack of success at the post-secondary level is the capacity of the K-12 system to get graduates into post-secondary education. There are a couple of issues for me around that.
One issue is that what we've heard from first nations, Métis, and Inuit from coast to coast to coast is that they already have people who have the ability to get into post-secondary, whether it's trades or vocational, technical or university, but they aren't able to do so, or when they do get in, they are unable to complete, for a variety of reasons. If we increase the capacity of the K-12 system and pump more students into a system that already seems like it can't accommodate everybody who is interested and willing....
I wonder if you could comment on the number of students that you're not able to serve and what's missing in the post-secondary system to support students once they're in the system.