One of the interesting things among many European countries is the issue of accessibility. A good number of European countries have no tuition fees. Some, in fact, not only have no tuition fees, but actually provide grants to help students with the non-tuition costs of going to university or college.
What's often pointed out when I observe this is that in Canada a smaller proportion go on to post-secondary education. The most interesting example is Finland, where there is no tuition fee, where there is a substantial grant to each student in post-secondary education to help underwrite it—whether it's college or university—and where their participation rate is higher than Canada's. They're simply a society that has decided that their future, economically and socially, is best advanced by a much more significant investment in post-secondary education.
We would be happy to share information with the committee on some of these European approaches to providing greater accessibility.