The federal government has started to do many things. The recent budget was very positive in the sense of recognizing dollars for infrastructure for post-secondary education. That's an important ingredient. Recognizing the value of apprenticeship training with tax credits is a positive thing. That's not enough, though. Even before getting into funding, as a country we have to identify education as a national priority, and that means leadership, and that means saying we need to be looking at where we want to be in the future; how we are going to be competitive; how we capture that 50% of the population that is not pursuing post-secondary education, not just students, but the underemployed, aboriginals, the disabled.
Education is the great liberator, and the greatest thing both federal and provincial governments can do is to start working together to get rid of the institutional barriers and in some instances jurisdictional barriers, which need to be respected but should not become inhibitors for us to be competitive as a country. When Canada goes out into the world, it does not compete as Saskatchewan; it competes as Canada.
Somehow, we have to be able to agree collectively that this is a priority and put in place some steps that would respond to that.