One of the things that Michael Ignatieff has said on a number of occasions, and I agree, is that it's a bit of a goal. If you have the marks, you get to go; this shouldn't be the discriminating factor. To me that makes a lot of sense.
Scott, concerning this being a band-aid approach, in a lot of cases private members' bills are not meant to solve an entire federal issue. They're meant to go specifically and are targeted to fixing problems that exist. I think we need to keep that in mind with Bill C-284. If you want to go broader, then we could go broader. The government could introduce, for example, the 50-50 plan we advocated in the last election, which means that all students would have gotten half of their tuition in their first and last year paid for, which is significant especially in a province like Nova Scotia, with high tuitions.
But this is specifically targeted at low-income Canadians and persons with disabilities. Quite often the two are the same. The third group that I think we all would recognize are under-represented are aboriginal Canadians. We need to do something about that situation as well, but this is a specifically targeted measure in a program that exists.
I'd like to ask you, Amanda, to talk.... You talked anecdotally about evidence that Canada access grants, though young, work. Do you have anything else on this program that you can tell us?