Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to touch on graduation rates. I know Mr. Bell spoke on them a bit. Not so much the graduations but maybe the lack of, and the people who get caught just short of that stage.
We have a number of students who get lost in the high schools around the grade 10 mark, even between grade 8 and grade 12, who do not get through the school system. It is not because they are not good kids and they do not want to work. Some of them would make excellent workers and have an interest in only a specific field.
It has been brought to my attention a number of times that we are lacking in services out there that can pick these kids up. Whether it is partnering with industry, if it is someone who wants to get into welding or whatever trades that are out there, and they only need specific subjects in a grade 12 equivalency to get into that stream.
Are there any programs out there, or anyone working with industry who can identify some programs that these kids can get into, where they only have to take certain subjects to reach that grade equivalency that allows them to get into that trade and get themselves ready to get out there into the world and make some productive choices? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.