Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to each of you for your testimony today. It's very helpful as part of this study.
The labour market agreements with the provinces funded a variety of programs across the country that were approaching similar issues in different ways, but the common thread was that they were helping people get the skills they need to enter the workforce and to participate in the economy.
In Nova Scotia, 60 groups lost their funding as of March 31 when the labour market agreement funding from the federal government ended. The provincial government has now offered, for a period, bridge funding of several million dollars. For instance, some of these groups were helping people who had dropped out of high school to get their GEDs, such that they could enter training or the workforce. Some groups were helping with basic literacy.
Is this something you're seeing in other parts of the country as well, that some of these groups that were previously receiving federal funding as part of the labour market agreements have been rendered vulnerable by the decision to withdraw that funding as of March 31?