{"time": "2007-03-20 16:40:00", "attribution": {"en": "Hon. Michael Chong (Wellington\u2014Halton Hills, CPC)", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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I have a question for Mr. Cappon.

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In your report here\u2014I just perused it, and it's quite impressive\u2014I note with interest that we have the highest, or above average, funding for students for post-secondary education compared to the OECD average. That was somewhat of a surprise to me, because the perception out there is that this is not the case. I'm not sure if you had a chance yesterday to hear our budgetary announcement with respect to funding for PSE. We've announced that we are significantly increasing funding through the Canada social transfer for post-secondary education and training. I think it amounts to some $16 billion over the next seven years in additional funding.

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I'm wondering if you could comment. From perusing this, I know the report doesn't identify funding as the single most critical component. Maybe you could elaborate to this committee a bit more on what you mean by the need for better metrics for assessing performance, how that might work. Would that go through a council of ministers of education? What sorts of metrics need to be defined? How would that be coordinated?

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Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.

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Ma question s'adresse \u00e0 M. Cappon.

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Dans votre rapport que je viens de parcourir rapidement et que je trouve tr\u00e8s impressionnant, je constate avec int\u00e9r\u00eat que le Canada est le pays de l'OCDE qui offre le plus d'argent aux \u00e9tudiants pour l'enseignement postsecondaire. Cela m'a un peu surpris, car on affirme en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral le contraire. Je ne sais pas si vous avez eu l'occasion, hier, d'entendre ce qui est pr\u00e9vu dans le budget au titre du financement de l'enseignement postsecondaire. Nous avons annonc\u00e9 que nous allions augmenter consid\u00e9rablement le financement de l'enseignement postsecondaire et de la formation au moyen du Transfert canadien en mati\u00e8re de programmes sociaux. Je pense que le financement additionnel s'\u00e9l\u00e8ve \u00e0 environ 16 milliards de dollars pour les sept prochaines ann\u00e9es.

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Je me demande ce que vous en pensez. Je sais, pour l'avoir parcouru, que votre rapport n'identifie pas le financement comme \u00e9tant le seul \u00e9l\u00e9ment essentiel. Pouvez-vous nous expliquer davantage ce que vous voulez dire lorsque vous parlez du besoin de meilleurs outils de mesure pour \u00e9valuer le rendement? Comment est-ce que cela fonctionnerait? Est-ce que cela rel\u00e8verait du conseil des ministres de l'\u00e9ducation? Quelle sorte d'outils nous faut-il? Comment est-ce que cela serait coordonn\u00e9?

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