Your question refers to the part of our brief that talks about tax credits for students, and I wouldn't dispute the fact that money in the system has stayed consistent, but it's being allocated in different ways--new programs and new means by which students are to gain assistance. Sadly, tax credits and a number of other programs haven't had the effect they were meant to have. In terms of assisting students, many students do not benefit from things like tax credits; many students do not benefit from interest relief. Statistics Canada came out with a study a couple of weeks ago that showed that half of those who are eligible aren't using interest relief.
But to get to your question with regard to a choice, it's not our position that we put all the money into federal transfers, that those go to the universities and we do nothing on the access side. There's a very easy way to provide access and assistance to students, and that's through upfront grants. So it's not your back-end measures like tax credits or interest relief; it's through reducing the upfront costs by regulating tuition fees--the easiest thing to regulate with regard to costs for students--and by providing low-income grants.
In the 2004 budget, a new low-income grant was introduced, which to us signalled that there was an acknowledgement that the Millennium Scholarship Foundation wasn't doing what it was supposed to do. That grant program can be expanded to help more low-income Canadians.