Mr. Turk, after two years in Parliament, I'm still waiting to meet the first witness who will come and say that he doesn't need more money from the government and that the government shouldn't do anything about it.
Considering the fact that the vast majority of Canadian taxpayers have never been to university and that their children won't go to university either, and that those who go to university will end up making vastly more interesting revenue for the rest of their lives because of the time they spent in university and the education they got there and the qualifications they were able to maintain after that, do you think that government funding of post-secondary education should be across the board, or is it time we look for those areas of human activity where our dollar will be better invested in a graduate education?
Isn't it time we realized that an engineer will probably provoke the creation of 100 jobs, and an archaeologist might not, and a sociologist might not? Do you think government money should be across the board in university, or is it time to concentrate on those fields of endeavour and learning that are more useful to the practical life of the taxpayer who does not have the means to send his or her own children to university and has never been to university?