Finance committee  I would echo the comments that have been made by my colleagues around the table. But as I focused on in my presentation, I think we do need to look at this and stop doing one-off deals and segmenting our dollars into certain areas. We have to look at it as a strategy, at where we

Finance committee  I think we need to focus, but we also need a strategy. That strategy can't be just that focus area; we need to have that strategy in place.

Finance committee  I think we're falling behind in those terms, and as you've seen from the skill shortage, we need to bring more. We need to do more to attract international students and international immigrants here to Canada. I think that having a strategy that encompasses mobility of learning w

Finance committee  Yes, in terms of a national strategy, what we're looking for in terms of the mobility issue is for people who are training and getting education in other provinces to be able to move to another province and have that education recognized. We have a major challenge in certain pock

Finance committee  If you move to Australia, I don't know if you're going to come back. Their climate is simply really good--

Finance committee  --compared to many climates in Canada.

Finance committee  The mobility aspect is really key to a national strategy to make sure we are looking at education and training as a system, and looking at it as a country rather than as pockets of provinces and territories.

Finance committee  Should we be competing against each other, or should we be competing against other jurisdictions? That's the problem: we're losing our competitive advantage by competing just with ourselves for our small pool of population.

Finance committee  Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity to share with you the thoughts, concerns, and recommendations of Ontario's college and college/university students. I am Tyler Charlebois and I am the director of advocacy for the College Student Alliance, which is an advocacy and se

Finance committee  Yes, it would be a figure that my association.... I know that a lot of our partner associations across Canada, in terms of student groups, would support that figure, and it's something that the Council of the Federation has put out, and as well, the Premier of Ontario. We would s

Finance committee  We only represent colleges within Ontario.

Finance committee  When you look at how the millennium program was first introduced by the previous Liberal government, there were some issues with the provinces. As the millennium program has gone on, they've started to remove those issues. They're starting to work very well. From our perspective

Finance committee  I think it's true that you've seen the shift from funding post-secondary education at the core level, which is to the institutions, to more targeted funding, which is research and the student assistance side. Our organization supports the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundatio

Finance committee  Thank you. I am Tyler Charlebois. I'm the director of advocacy for the College Student Alliance, an advocacy and services organization that has proudly been representing Ontario's college students since 1967. The alliance currently represents 16 colleges and 22 member councils,