This percentage is very far from the European Union’s 85% objective of young people who have access to secondary university education.

(H) Whereas 79,9% of the targeted workers have only basic education (end of compulsory education); whereas 17,4% have upper secondary or tertiary education;

Believes that no child should be deprived of his or her fundamental right to education because of an inability to pay, and reiterates its call on all governments to establish a clear timetable for rapidly eliminating direct and indirect fees for primary education, while maintaining a high level of, or enhancing the quality of education, ensure by all appropriate means access for all children to secondary, technical as well as higher education; stresses that including children and communities themselves in decision-making about schools helps to make schooling more relevant to children's needs;

(b) Secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational secondary education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education;

3. Ministère de l'Education nationale, de la Formation professionnelle et des Sports: Lycées d'enseignement secondaire et d'enseignement secondaire technique.

Mr. Paul Zed (Fundy-Royal, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, on October 23 I had the distinct pleasure of presenting awards to the Minto Elementary and Junior High School and Chipman Junior-Senior High School in Queen's county, New Brunswick.