I think one is the delivery and the implementation, and the other is the strategy. When I talk about a national strategy, what I'm talking about fundamentally is a recognition of how critical post-secondary education, in all of its formats, is to the country's prosperity and its competitiveness. I don't think we can really achieve that as a country unless we collectively are able to say this is core to us; we need to invest in this. It also means that all of the individual activities that are going on at the provincial level actually need to be part of an understanding and a knowledge of what that is. That is not to go in and say we know that doesn't work and we're going to tell you what to do in your jurisdiction, but to understand that piece on a collective basis--that we have all these arguably fragmented approaches we're taking, but where do they interconnect?
One of the things that polytechnics has done is to develop what we've described as a protocol to allow their students.... Any student can come into any one of these institutions and, by virtue of that protocol, move to any other institution across the country. It's really to leverage that and to make sure that where we have separate initiatives we're maximizing it. Different provinces now have some good programs happening on e-learning on the Internet. I would hazard a guess that on a national level we really don't have a foggy clue, nor do we have a portal that allows us to connect that.
That's really what I'm getting at when I talk about a national approach to being able to identify what the issues are and leadership in dealing with the issues.