Our colleges are very proactive, and with good reason. Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island looked at those potential jobs and decided that their francophone students needed to be able to take advantage of them. Those provinces are recruiting students very proactively because they know that very good jobs are being created.
I must say that more and more value is being placed on the trades. Previously, the impression was that it was university or nothing. Today, the jobs on offer require more of a technical or professional training. That takes nothing away from a university education, but that is what we are seeing.
Let me give you an example. A few years ago, one of the leaders of the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec was asked why employers were not funding post-secondary education in the province. He said that they paid the government enough in taxes and it was the government’s role. He said that if they were ever forced to give money to the post-secondary education system, they would give it to the colleges because that is where their needs were met.