Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'll continue with education, if you don't mind.
I'll give you some numbers from my province. I was a trustee for 10 years, and the numbers aren't good. Graduation rates for indigenous students in Regina public schools have climbed 11%. They were at 42%, so it was a mandate from the province that all 28 school boards would start working together here, so we are now at 53% in Regina. Provincially we are at 43% graduation rates for indigenous students, so when you came out last week with 87.6% and I saw that—ouch!— there is a big difference here.
We know there are issues. From grade 10 to grade 12 you get credit for the graduation rates. For me, it doesn't matter if a kid takes five years to get that, but the provincial governments are always down to three years. They count only the graduation rates from grades 10, 11, and 12, those three years, but we know there are students whose home life.... I don't care as long as they graduate. In our province, we really have had trouble saying that if it takes a student five years to go from grade 10 to grade 12, we're there with him. We want to push him across that finish line.
I'm just going to peel back those numbers, because data is the biggest thing in all of this. You have data collection, and I want to get it because we don't share data. We're all used to hiding it because we're embarrassed by our numbers.
Share some of that data on that 87.6% graduation rate.