There were three questions. I'll be quick.
People are incredibly resourceful with whatever they get. They're going to put that $1,200 toward whatever is going to make their family the most healthy. It's not likely to be child care, frankly, because they wouldn't be able to do that. It's going to be whatever it is they can do. I don't think there's any question.
With respect to projects, there was a question about six months, six months, six months. I think nationally we have been involved in a couple of programs. The biggest challenge for us, ever since grants and contributions, has been the amount of scrutiny we go through with Treasury Board and the finance department to get the programs out there. They have a five-year window. We go through those independent evaluations, and the programs stop while that occurs. We sometimes get a one-year extension as an administration year. The projects stop entirely while the rationalization occurs, and then they start up again. It's a five-year process. Really, because you have the administration year, you're into a four- or a three-and-a-half-year programming cycle, which is really problematic.
I think it's not an aboriginal diabetes initiative; I think it is across the board. With the heritage department, we have a problem with the urban multipurpose aboriginal youth centre initiative that has historically late funding. It's a year program, and we get six to nine months of programming because it takes that long to get the funding out the door. It's a huge challenge.
I think it's more systemic than it is any one program. I think we're talking about the financial framework in which we operate as program administrators, whether it's grant or contribution funding in terms of our terms and conditions.
The cost-benefit analysis has been done, interestingly enough, in some western ridings. There has been some research on an aboriginal man who graduates from university. He is going to have x amount more of income throughout his life than if he didn't graduate.
We have 13 alternative schools across the country, and friendship centres. Young aboriginal people who dropped out of school are going back and getting their high school through these education programs. We're in the process of trying to secure funds to do a study, not only to impact on what they're doing here but to expand that program nationally, to have the benefits everywhere.
I think those were all of your questions.