Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To my friend from Waterloo, yes, it was interesting all the tricks the engineering students there would play on us, that's for sure, but there is no doubt about the quality of the program.
I want to raise a concern though in terms of general education, getting the education and paying for it later on. I was coaching at a hockey rink the other day and a parent came up to me. He is now training a person from overseas to take his job. Where I come from automotive obviously is very important, but so is tool and die mould making. It is the best in the world. For a while a lot of our stuff was being outsourced to China and other places, South Korea even, and then we actually got the work contracted back to us to fix what they had done wrong and then shipped it back.
The interesting aspect of what this gentleman was saying to me was the fact that he was an engineer who is actually training somebody from India to take his job because when this contract is done, he'll return to India and he will be out of a job. What do you say about the future, or what can we do now at least to protect some of those things?
What I get worried about is the student debt level versus that of the window of earnings being lopsided now and that being an occupational education that won't meet the market past of what you pay for it.
Are there plans for Waterloo and other places to deal with this just yet? I was surprised to some degree by India, although I've seen this for other countries as well, but I'm not surprised overall because it seems to be the next wave.