In Newfoundland and Labrador we are at a time when our investments in education are growing, but our literacy rate is really low. Cutting these programs has the greatest effect on people of my generation and a bit older. The young people coming up are not as affected. They have a strong program in school, and they're more apt to attend school. But we need people of the older generations to be reading, to be literate, and to be fully engaged, and they've been taking advantage of those programs.
On October 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.