When we got the funding for the project, it was for five years. In the first year, the consortium was put together and there were no activities. Then we had to advertise all over Quebec in order to make ourselves known, we had to identify and recruit clients and put the various training courses together. The deadline was March 31. The feds had given us $5 million to start with, but it was never possible to spend it all. We had to give $2 million back to them. So we had spent $3 million to set up the centre and our organization, to get the cohorts going, to look after the kids and everything. But we have still trained 700 people.
On September 27th, 2012. See this statement in context.