I'd like to welcome everyone to our committee. Your presentations were excellent. It's always very beneficial to have your expertise here, because we're here to get it, and you're the ones who know what's going on out there.
I have questions for all of you, and I have only seven minutes. I'll start with Nancy.
Nancy, you mentioned mentorship, and we've found that mentorship is very important in almost everything we're doing with women and girls. When I've hosted round tables for entrepreneurs, mentorship has always come up, and when I was doing skilled trades round tables, it was always mentorship.
A couple of you mentioned getting them involved at an early age. I think when I started round tables, it was about getting them involved in grade 9 or 10 so that they would know what they were going to take. Then by the time we finished the roundtables, it was no, you have to get them involved in grades 6, 7, and 8, so they know what they like, and then they can take the right courses in high school to go on and get the skilled trades.
You mentioned that there's a fairly good percentage who drop off after the first year. Do you have a suggestion for something we can do so they don't drop off that quickly?