Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to indicate to honourable Members, one of the problems, and I respect the remarks by the honourable Member, I think one of the causes where some of the problems we have with dropouts in students is this idea is rushing at the last minute to get to university. I think one of the problems is very little planning in terms of making sure you have your financial resources in place, you have your housing organized, you have contacts through the department to a particular post-secondary institution, that kind of stuff as a result of past experience we can indicate to honourable Members that there are those kinds of problems that we have to try to deal with. There is nothing to suggest that in the changes that have been made that we will not deal with situations where people come and say we would like to go to university, we have an application, not only in but we have a location, we have ourselves organized. I think it is important to recognize that we have to set some deadlines and say we cannot have students rushing to institutions any longer. There has to be a bit more organization.
There is another aspect to this. When we know students are accepted at post-secondary institutions, as a government who is providing employment to students who are either in post-secondary institutions or going, then we make an effort to find employment for them so they can have the dollars. If they, in fact, submit an application at the last minute then we never get a chance to help them out and I think it is a bit unfair for them. All I am saying to you is that there are a number of ways we are trying to deal with this particular matter.
We are going to be sending out a newsletter to all students who are in post-secondary institutions and all students who are going to the high schools. We have info brochures which are going to the regional offices, we have newspaper ads and we are also going to be using CBC and TVNC to advertise these changes. It is not our intention to make it difficult, but to improve and, in fact, if anything I think we are going to be able to help the students much better if we know who is going to post-secondary institutions and what location they are at because our association can be helpful as well either at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta or the University of Calgary.