In our situation here, before the pandemic and even before government student financial assistance was available, we may have had five to 10 students in each class. With the financial assistance in the last three to five years, our enrolment has significantly increased. Now we can get 30 to 40 students in a class. This is a huge difference.
The proposed budget last year actually disturbed our students tremendously already. Some of them are thinking about withdrawal from the program because they say they simply won't be able to sustain and continue their education. Some of them are saying, “Hey, I'm going to public college because I can continue to get the Government of Canada student grant.”
If you look at my speech, there is an appendix about the public institutions versus private institutions. In Ontario, there are 16 educational institutions—