Thank you, Madam Chair. Some of the discussions that we had with this bill in camera I want to bring to the floor of the House to make them public. One of the areas of concern that I know I had as a Member, this is the second time during the life of this Assembly that we’ve come back to add a component, or a financial component to this SFA total. I just want to make sure that we’re doing things in the right mannerism.
One of the concerns we had, and it was also brought up and echoed by the Auditor General of Canada, is that there has been some concern on the collection of student financial loans. In fact, some of the numbers that the Auditor General realized in their audit was that we failed to collect on roughly around 60 percent of our student financial loans that are out there, which is putting a burden on our system.
So my opening question here in a general sense is because of the fact, not just me, not just committee, but the Auditor General of Canada clearly articulating that we’ve got a collection problem. Is this collection problem, or is the repatriation of getting our money back to taxpayers causing the impetus here for seeing an increase of $5 million being asked here today? Thank you.