Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you for the question. So in regards to the student financial assistance northern bonus program, the changes that you see within this budget are still reflective of that. The reason being is that we passed the previous year's budget in May/June, so it was different from how we normally do it. And so because the northern bonus program had already had an intake in April of last year, it meant that we had already spent that money. So we were able to reduce the northern bonus program in 2024-2025 by $360,000, and the remaining amount, the $240,000 needed to be reduced in this budget. So that's where you'll see it. It doesn't reduce the program any more than what we had committed to reducing it. And so -- but it just had to be broken out into two different main estimates because of where the intakes landed. They landed in April, and then the second one in October.
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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