I would like to come back to Mr. Mayes' question about the targeted initiative for older workers.
The implication of his question was correct in that we have expanded eligibility. It used to be for communities with populations of under 250,000. This program was started largely to deal with lumber towns during the downturn in the lumber industry, so it was originally limited to communities of under 250,000 with high unemployment. We've expanded that to include communities with under 250,000 people, with high unemployment or with unmet demand for skills. That is to say, you might have some communities in northern B.C. where they have relatively low unemployment but where there are labour shortages, and some older workers might benefit from this programming.
I want to clarify. I think I said that we opened eight Service Canada offices for veterans services. In fact, what we did was provide Veterans Affairs a platform in eight pre-existing Service Canada offices.
I also note that the closure of those offices is a matter of contention, but it happened because there was very modest use of those offices. I note that as of September, in the eight VAC service centres being operated in Service Canada offices, nine—not 900, only nine—reservations had been scheduled for case manager meetings.