There are a couple of areas that I would like to touch on, and one of them is in the Student Financial Assistance Program. Having been around for a number of years and having four kids going through the education system, it appears that every time one of my kids come to post-secondary education, there is a different set of rules applying to how they receive funding. I still have two outstanding issues with student financial assistance, and I have not had time to go through that whole booklet. Maybe my particular situation has been addressed, but I am going to ask a couple of questions in that area and get specific answers to what I am looking at. Maybe it will help me understand part of it at least.
When my son finished high school, he went to a post-secondary institution in Calgary called the Rye. They had a different system than university, whereby they had three semesters a year with no summer break. When he applied for student financial assistance, he could not get funding for the three semesters a year because the department said they could only pay for two semesters per year. My son took four years of education in a matter of three years, but only collected financial assistance for three years. At the time, I was to understand that he still had one year of financial assistance left through the department. I would just like to ask the Minister, with the changes in the policy, what funding would he be able to access now? Does it change his funding in any way? Does it increase it or decrease it? Thank you.