Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister provide some background information on this facility to give a little more sense of what the process is and indicate as well what timelines he is looking at in terms of a final decision possibly being made in regards to this facility and its location? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, the facility at this time, as I understand it, would be a physical structure where the diamonds would be shipped from the production sites and sorted in a manner that an expert trained in trying assess the value of these diamonds would have access to them, be able to put a specific value on these rough diamonds for the purposes of the Government of Canada, for instance, deciding what their share of the value would be in terms of taxes or royalties. That would be the primary purpose of the facility. It would involve a very high element of security, of course. Whether that facility would be going on continuously, whether there would be a diamond evaluator working in shifts, one person doing, doing it part time, I am not aware of. I am not really able to provide any more information than that. But as I said, there will be a report as we have engaged an expert in this field to provide us with some details. We will be meeting with him in the first week of March. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Education, Mr. Dent. The other day I received a letter from Yvette Schreder, who is a constituent and now a student at the Southern Institute of Technology in Calgary. She had encountered a problem with her student financial assistance. I prepared a number of questions for today, that I was going to pose today, but I understand that the problem has been solved. I want to compliment the Minister for intervening so fast and for turning this around in a day. But could the Minister confirm that this problem has been solved for Ms. Schreder? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, Mr. Speaker, the appeal by Ms. Schreder, has been upheld. Ms. Schreder has been contacted and advised that her cheque is in the mail. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I wonder if the Minister could tell if they have looked into similar situations, if other students may be encountering similar difficulties under this particular basic grant and primary loan program?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it appears that the applicant was forthright in her application. The problem was that the staff who were examining the application did not understand that the program being applied for was an upgrading program. Therefore there will be an adjustment made on application forms so that our staff and the applicants will all be very clear as to what the program is when they are applying for student financial assistance. Hopefully, this will ensure we do not encounter this kind of problem again where assistance is offered initially and found not to be applicable. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Could the Minister tell us if it has come to his attention that other students were affected in a similar way?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe that some students had received support and that the department had not been aware that the program was for upgrading and therefore, students in similar situations would be looked at, I would say, in a similar manner. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I can confirm that, yes.

Mr. Speaker, I was just accepting your point to try to be brief sometimes.

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