That's a great question.
At the moment, we cobble together funding in order to promote and support the program. Employers tend to donate the time of the mentor, so that adds up to over $1 million in support to our program alone each year. The federal government has given a small amount of funding to our mentoring program and contributes to some mentoring programs across the country. Our program is largely funded by the Ontario government at this point through the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development. We're also working at the federal level with ESDC to look at doing a program that would measure the impact of mentoring versus a control group to find out if this is, indeed, the best intervention out there. We believe that those results will be positive.
We know, though, that at this point, we're only serving about 1,700 mentees in the GTA. The Boston Consulting Group says that it could easily be 6,000 to 10,000 each year, and across the country another 30,000. We know that economic immigrants, the largest group of immigrants coming to the country, need that kind of support, but to really get it to scale, we feel that there needs to be more federal support for it.