We have a number of different literacy initiatives. We get a grant from the provincial government to cover some of them. We have applied, under the auspices of the SLFDB, for money available through the federal government under HRSDC and other grants.
Most of them are workplace-based. Oftentimes they're peer-delivered. In other words, you may have a group of workers out in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, who work in grain handling and transportation. We do workplace training and train the trainers to deliver workplace-based training.
First, with that kind of work, the employer is giving time off; two, the union in many cases is assisting in the training of the workplace peer trainers; and three, the funding is coming through a variety of mechanisms, through direct investment by the employer, investment by the union, or investment by the federal or provincial government. Obviously, when one of those pieces falls off, or one of those partnership funding arrangements falls off, then the others are left to pick up the slack, or else the training initiative becomes vulnerable to no longer existing since it doesn't have in place the necessary funding to make that occur.
We do believe the loss of $17.7 million in literacy-based training will have an impact on initiatives in Saskatchewan. I'm not the expert in this field; we have people at the federation who are dedicated solely and exclusively to workplace essential skills training and literacy. We haven't yet seen what is being proposed to replace it. Obviously we'll pursue that.
So we do see significant cuts. If there are pieces in place that replace that adequately, we're not aware of those. Perhaps we need to do some....