We need to build Asia competency in our school systems, both at the K-to-12 level and post-secondary, and we need to build it across the corporate sector. We need Canadians who have the skills, the experience, and the knowledge to be successful in Asia. That of course does mean teaching about Asia in the school system, but it's also about on-the-ground experiences, about placements in Asia. It's about corporations that reward staff that have Asia expertise. It's about boards in major corporations that value having directors with knowledge, skills, and experience in that part of the world.
Australia has set itself an objective, for example, within 10 years for every Australian student to have the opportunity to learn an Asian language through the school system—every single Australian student. They have also set an objective for a third of their board members in the corporate sector, of course, on a voluntary basis, to make sure that they have people on those boards who have direct Asia experience and knowledge. We don't have that in this country. We don't have an appetite to do that. Unless we have the will and the instruments to build Asia skills, literacy, knowledge, expertise in this country, all our ambitions through trade agreements and through speeches and high-sounding advice from me and others will come to naught because we won't have the people to follow through.