When you think of the demographic of how many indigenous learners are coming to the age at which they are eligible for post-secondary education, approximately 130,000 new indigenous students qualify to join post-secondary this year and approximately 70% of those will not be able to enrol because there is inadequate funding.
When we're talking about the Canadian labour market right now, we know that we have an aging-out population. Here we have this entire demographic that is growing at 9.4% and getting larger and larger, and we don't have adequate resources to put them into post-secondary education.
There are no resources available for them and that is unfortunately, I think, a matter that needs to be urgently addressed. Our funding, the PSSSP program, is also sunsetting. It was guaranteed in the 2020-21 budget to have two more years of funding. We haven't seen any government recommendations to promote that any further than 2023. When a program is sunsetting, we still need all of these indigenous learners to get to school, so how are we going to do that? That is an urgent call.