Thank you. And I had the same thoughts as the Member. So these changes that -- we really have not discussed publicly will take effect for the upcoming -- so the 2023-2024 academic year. So students going to school in September would have access to some of these changes that we're making. The increase in the budget is about $1.4 million. As well, we've made some other reallocations internally to adjust the program as well. So some of the changes are the basic grant. We are increasing that for -- first of all, this program, again, is supposed to cover 80 percent of the cost of attending school in somewhere like in Edmonton. I think that was the original calculation. So we wanted to make sure that that 80 percent was still accurate so we looked at the numbers and we increased the overall budget for each of the grants available. We also decided for Indigenous students, to increase the basic grant to cover 100 percent of the cost -- the average cost of tuition, books, etcetera, and we removed the cap on semesters. So before you would have to -- you could only use 12 semesters of funding before you were done. So we've removed that. I'll just leave it at that for now. Thanks.
R.J. Simpson 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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