I think it's a question of a focus. If you take the average grade school student, average high school student, that individual can name you the planets in their orbits in the right order in the solar system and around the sun. That's science. That same individual cannot tell you how a telephone works.
We teach science—and it's vitally important, and it's good—but we do not take that one step further and start teaching applied science. So when an individual starts making a decision about going into an applied science field, that bridge is not there, and that decision is not made.
If I had my druthers, I would knock on the door of the Canadian Council of Ministers of Education and I would say, “Change your curricula in the school systems. Focus not specifically on science but on applied science so that an individual starting to make a career choice can actually think in terms of applied science.” At the moment, they do not.