i know a fair amount about wayne gretzky, and it's not exactly because i'm canadian. my father has a hockey nut. i didn't share his interest, as a kid, and he found that hard to understand, but he knew i liked to read. he bought me a fair number of sports related books, including books by ken dryden and an autobiography of gretzky, up to the mid 90s, as written by a ghost writer. 

so, i read gretzky's autobiography when i was a kid. i was about ten. that's how i know he didn't go to high school.

he didn't go to high school because he was a child hockey prodigy and he didn't make the time to finish grade school while playing professional hockey, as a child. nowadays, he wouldn't be allowed to do that. further, he states in his book, via his ghost writer, that he regrets not finishing grade school, as it left him unable to do basic tasks for himself, like count how much money he has. his agent ripped him off pretty badly.

gretzky commands a lot of respect on the canadian political right, but the truth is that what is known about his public life experiences suggest he wouldn't be very good at tabling a budget.

it's not even clear if he can count to 92.