Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I can only speak about our institutions. We would happily give the data.

Finance committee  We have to provide this data to our provincial masters. You cannot get funding at NAIT or at Sheridan without showing how many students there are, their outcomes, and key performances.

Finance committee  Why is that not available to the federal government?

Finance committee  I had two takeaways from the U.K. trip again. My colleague Ken Doyle did the travelling, but he's briefed me enough. In the U.K. they just recently redid their thinking on apprenticeship, and apprenticeship is slightly more widely understood in the U.K. They've come up with some

Finance committee  It depends on how big the pie can be. Of course, “woulda, shoulda, coulda”, but, at the end of the day, we have tremendous constraints on any kind of public funding for education. It's what we can do within those constraints. I think one of the things that's really important is t

Finance committee  A little bit, but let's remember the bias. The high school guidance counsellor actually is a teacher. You can only be a teacher if you've gone to university. Why would you want to promote something that you didn't do? That's one point. The other thing where things get better is

Finance committee  That's what I'm getting to with my second recommendation. We don't have adequate data. When the federal government transfers funding to the provinces to deliver those kinds of training programs, it's inside this glob of money called the Canada social transfer. How much is really

Finance committee  Absolutely. This is the accountability for the post-secondary spend.

Finance committee  Thank you very much.

Finance committee  Yes, indeed. I think I presented to the committee in the fall there are these two specific surveys.

Finance committee  I think the total cost is about $18 million. You heard from ESDC, web portal, Working in Canada portal.... I don't think it's government's job to design portals. It's to make available longitudinal, credible data on whatever the issue is we're trying to track.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  There are at least two quick answers I will give you. One is because we don't have enough data on the different kinds of occupations and professions and the earning power of each profession, we are generally driving our high school graduates into university. Every parent in Canad

Finance committee  I guess I would just say that being a poet...this is the privilege of this kind of society, you can actually pursue that in Canada, and you can go to very fine universities to do that. If you want to be doing applied arts in, for example, Sheridan, in the ceramic arts, you can al