Okay, yesterday I was saying about the income support and, okay, the Indigenous students, they get -- they're eligible for basic and supplementary. And I was saying there, I said a lot of students are saying that the funding that they get, it's not enough. So a lot of them are saying they're going -- they're applying for the repayable loan. And so when they do that, they are -- they were told that they have to pay, like the full amount. And it's not -- they don't like it. They would like -- some of them were saying that it would be nice if it was the same as the remissible loan where they can pay half, because a lot of them live in outlying communities, in the small communities. And if they don't get a job right away, then what SFA or the ECE does is they send their file to the collection, to the collection department. They didn't even start their life or doesn't even have a job, now right away at the beginning when they're just starting their credit is already ruined because of the collections. So lot of them -- is there any way that we can change that within the policy or the SFA can -- the department look into that by, you know, part of the renewal policy?
Jane Weyallon Armstrong on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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