One of the fundamental principles of education is that you have comparable data. Our public system produces some of the highest-quality education in the world, and yet indigenous affairs has no comparisons with children in a provincial system, no idea about the management of programs, no attempt to actually identify the education gaps that exist. On page 17, you say they misrepresented the graduation rates, which they claimed were 46%, when the real number was 24%. I would put it to you, from the communities I've been in, where I've seen young people dropping out in grades 5 and 6 because they're so hopelessly behind, that these numbers might be even higher. How can we allow a system to run when they don't even bother to find the comparison with other students who are in the same provincially mandated curriculum?
On May 31st, 2018. See this statement in context.