There are two things. First you need to fund alternative education models to get kids back in after they have dropped out. Education is a lifelong process, so that's one of the things we need to examine.
Second, I think there's a disincentive for a lot of public school systems to graduate aboriginal kids. They get their tuition I believe in October, after the kid gets there at the start of September. If the kid drops out in November, the school keeps the tuition.
We think there should be an incentive to graduate children once they come into those schools and in public school systems across the country. I appreciate this happens differently across the country. But there are far too many schools where it's a disincentive to keep crowded classrooms by having aboriginal students in there. Once you have the tuition for the year, there's no incentive to graduate them.
I'd prefer to support those post-secondary institutions that are graduating our kids. It's far better to have them graduate from a public education system than come through our friendship centre alternative school or another program, for any number of reasons. Those are two specific interventions that could have an impact.