Thank you.
I'm going to take the final round.
In university I actually read that piece by Milton Friedman, although he would describe himself as a Libertarian, probably, not as a Conservative, so there is some commonality across the philosophical divide on that. I have too many questions and not enough time, unfortunately. I did want to get into that and the working income tax benefit.
Professor Veall, I appreciate your recommendations with respect to national securities regulation, intergenerational mobility, and the removal of labour-sponsored venture capital funds. We may ask you to come back on the budget bill, either this one or the next one.
I did, though, want to focus my comments with respect to Mr. McColeman's remarks and follow up on that. Especially in my area, the demand for people, for skilled and unskilled labour of all types, is the number one issue I get from businesses of all sizes. Small, medium, and large, they all come to me and say, “James, we cannot find enough people.” Whether it's BioWare, which is a computer tech company, or a manufacturing processing facility that is running at two-thirds capacity, or a hotel, or a restaurant, all types of business are saying they don't have enough people. There is a skills mismatch, which we're obviously trying to address through things like the Canada job grant.
But I want to focus perhaps on you, Mr. Dinsdale, with respect to the aboriginal community, because my friends were first nation and have, frankly, succeeded. I looked at them when I was sitting around with a number of them. All of them have either a trade or a university education, so I said to them that what was sort of the key to their success was finishing university or a trade school. They looked at me and they all said the same thing. They said, “No, the key was finishing high school.” The key was completing high school, so perhaps I'll just ask you to comment on some of the programs that are in place with respect to completing high school, things like Pathways to Education, a program that the government reaffirmed and supported in the last budget, and programs like that.
Could you comment on that and anything else this committee ought to be considering in terms of ensuring that kids do have that great opportunity by encouraging them to complete high school?