I'll tell you about Saskatchewan to start. I have some responses from most provinces. What we have heard from Saskatchewan is that after seventeen years of moving literacy forward in Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Literacy Network will likely be forced to close its doors.
In another place--I'm sorry, I really didn't have a place, but I brought a list of the things that will go down the tubes in Saskatchewan.
The support for programs for learners--this is at the coalition, and it is not teaching but more supports that allow them to go to class--is gone. They had a Learner Speakers’ Bureau, people they had trained, who went to speak in schools and to business groups that might donate money--people whose lives have been changed by literacy. So the speakers' bureau is gone.
Support for regional learner groups, which were peer groups where they could encourage each other to stay in school, is gone. Learner conference, gone. Professional development, gone. Training in family literacy is impacted. Training in understanding and respecting aboriginal culture, gone. I don't know exactly what that means for practitioners.