Mr. Davis has in fact, identified the major challenge with respect to prior learning recognition.
I'll put on my entrepreneur/investor hat to talk about the financial side of things. Human and financial aspects are important. They are the key to prior learning recognition.
I don't know how many thousands of dollars Canada contributed to Mr. Davis's training. In my case, Canada invested tens of thousands of dollars to give me warrant officer training until I was promoted to my rank.
And yet, when people leave the military, no one reaps the rewards of this investment. That's really too bad, in my opinion. It's as if Canada were shooting itself in the foot, because it spent all kinds of money training people who could become agents of change and make an economic contribution to their country. At the end of the line, it's as if we were throwing money away, because the expensive investment is lost when someone who has acquired a lot of skills returns to civilian life.
It's all very well to appear before committees, but we want the training that has been given to veterans to help them become agents of change. From an entrepreneurial standpoint, when you help veterans to develop, put their ideas forward and contribute to economic development, you find yourself with people who have already been trained and who are able to generate millions of dollars and create jobs. If you send people like that back to school to repeat the training they've already had, then you're wasting one, two or three years of investment. And I'm only talking about the financial aspect here.
From the human standpoint now, it's extremely…