Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is directed to the Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment, and goes back to the Student Financial Assistance Program.

This department has a number of services. You have career development officers located in the communities. You have income support workers located in the communities. Yet for some reason, student financial assistance officers are located up in the Lahm Ridge Tower, well removed from the people they serve. In many cases, they only communicate electronically or through the dreaded voice mail.

I would like to ask the Minister, given the need to link these services, why are our student financial assistance officers locked in the headquarters? Why is headquarters doing program delivery in that area when in all other areas the delivery is at the community level? Thank you.