What I have always liked about the concept of the Canada job grant is the focus on involving employers. That said, large urban colleges and polytechnics will have to wait to see what demand is created because it really is up to the employer to find the worker who they wish to have trained. We are waiting to see the traffic that will come from the grant.
Our large publicly funded colleges are very dependent on these provincial operating grants. These sorts of training programs are fairly small potatoes for the bread and butter of the programs we're talking about. The Canada job grant will go to things like up-scaling in the short term. That's not the same as the full range of full-time credentials that we are really focused on.
That said, the objective of the Canada job grant, where we want to actually deal with the lack of employer investment in training, we hope will work; we want to see it work. Now, there were all sorts of negotiations around this pot of money, and that has been a concern. As we say, there are billions of dollars being transferred to the provinces, and I'd say the solution here is to talk about what the outcome of the program is. Let's focus on the outcome.