That's an excellent question.
The staff shortage is clearly having an impact in schools. When you're forced to hire what we'd call unqualified teachers in schools because there's a shortage of qualified ones, it affects continuity. We don't always have teachers who are certified or who have the necessary skills, even though they are generally capable of doing the job. These are teachers who are not yet certified, but who have certain skills. It's a temporary solution to the staff shortage. It's a challenge.
There's also a challenge on the early childhood services side. Training for people who work with children is inadequate, and university training for certified teachers is insufficient. I do believe that the federal government can do something to increase teacher training in universities. That would have an effect on training capacity. At this point, even if we wanted to do more, we wouldn't have more teachers coming out of university. You can train 400 teachers, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll all be teaching overnight. They won't all automatically become teachers. They may have gotten their certificates, but that doesn't mean they'll end up in schools and called to work the next day. We can assume that 80% of these individuals will end up in schools, but 20% of them will be lost to other sectors.
We need to increase the number of spots in universities, as well as the number of educators or early childhood educators, to create a big enough pool of employees. It can be a temporary solution. It doesn't necessarily have to be permanent, but it does need to be considered for both early childhood as well as post-secondary education.