Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With regard to a short list of those programs or institutions to which we have relationships, they are: McGill University; the University of Lethbridge; the University of Calgary; the University of Saskatchewan; and, I believe, the University of Regina. There are other programs in the trades, we deal with NAIT, Fairview and SAIT. The efforts we are trying to address in this initiative that the Council of Ministers of Education are undertaking is students can transfer from institution to institution across the country and be recognized for the courses they are taking at other universities. For instance, if there is a student attending Dalhousie in the area of political science or law, they may be able to take the courses they have taken to the University of British Columbia and vice versa.

Today, there are students who have taken courses at the University of Toronto that are not accepted at the University of British Columbia. We are trying to break down those barriers. That will happen also in the trades area.