I'm involved with the program at Ryerson. It's currently funded; it has been on funding from the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration for the past five years, and it graduates, on average, 20 students per year, so a hundred over the course of the five years.
The success rate, as Pat mentioned, on the national certification exam is almost at the same level as graduates of our accredited programs. With that program we do apply, every couple of years, for extended funding. Bridging programs by nature are extremely expensive to operate because you're figuring out what skills and knowledge people have and then equating them to the Canadian system, helping people to develop different skills than they had in their country of origin. And there is a practicum component, so we get back into getting clinical placements.
The average bridging program is probably in the neighbourhood of 16 months, but people who graduate from those bridging programs are fully employed. They pass the exam and they're fully employed, whereas prior to that, I think Christine mentioned, almost no one got through, and they were in low-paying, alcohol and food service-related jobs. The people who get through bridging programs are now getting fair Canadian wages for their work.