Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A concern I had from my constituency, especially the ones taking the AV Program, is that the funding that they receive is inadequate in most cases, especially if you are a single mother and have to find babysitters and what not. The funding they do receive is not even close to what other people get in other programs because you are exempt from the Student Financial Assistance because it is not a caseload. Also, a lot of people take different programs because they are on employment insurance and what not.
I am wondering if the department has done anything to evaluate those programs to see exactly how they can streamline them so they are more reflective of each other, that one program is not better off than the other. All these students that we do have are on income support but they do not have the ability or the resources for babysitting and what not. Has the government done an evaluation to see why the students are being treated differently? Is it because of the different programs they are involved in or because of the social and economic situations they find themselves in, either on income support or employment insurance? Has the department done a review on that?