Let me just jump to some of the impacts on clients.
Clients that benefit the most from one-on-one support, such as those from stigmatized populations, would be the most affected. Clients referred to the nearest agency may not receive service in their own language because different locations have different language and cultural capacity. Clients are losing some supports such as transportation to access classes, child minding, resources for classroom materials, and learning enhancement.
Clients, particularly women from low-income populations, will be the most affected. Individuals in racialized communities are typically overrepresented in these populations. Clients will not be able to benefit from some of the highly specialized services currently available in the sector. For example, at least one of the agencies that will not have a contribution agreement in 2011-12, which represents a 100% cut, provided settlement services primarily to live-in caregivers and to a highly stigmatized population of immigrants, including sexual minorities and immigrants with HIV/AIDS, and their families.
There will 150 clients that will be affected by the loss of this service, which is located in one of Toronto's low-income neighbourhoods--