Absolutely, Madam Chair. Thank you. We need to be flexible within this model. The Member is absolutely correct. How many children have said when they were 12, they wanted to be a fire truck driver, and how many fire truck drivers do they end up producing? The whole idea of pathways isn't it to just say, "This is where you're going to be, and you're stuck in that." We're not a communist society; we're a democratic society. It's about helping children where they are, giving them goals, showing them that education is key, especially in the smaller communities where they are struggling to see the future. Then, if they change their mind, then we need to be there to support them to do that, because the stats show that children nowadays will change their careers, I believe, between seven and nine times in their careers. It's not the luxury of when I was young, when you could get a job, and you could keep that job forever. Those days are gone. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Cochrane on Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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