I know that some organizations, I think CFS is one of them, had indicated that we should double that program. For less than $100 million--I think the budget was $97.5 million--we could have created somewhere probably in the range of 40,000 jobs that would have provided support for students who are going to find it increasingly difficult to find work. It also would have helped--and this often gets ignored--the not-for-profit organizations. In my riding, and I think in the ridings of most of the members of this committee, those jobs do go to the not-for-profit organizations, to child care, to people who help seniors, who help people with disability and youth soccer and all those sorts of things.
I offer this free of charge to the government: double the program and I will stand up in the House of Commons and I will very briefly commend the government for doing that. I think it's an outstanding program.
I want to ask about the Canadian Council on Learning. On Tuesday the minister indicated that their funding would be extended for another year. My understanding was it was going to run out at the end of March. Our chair asked the question. Is that the fact, that they have another year of funding that will take them to 2010?