It was about $280,000 annually. It allowed us--there are other programs like it in New Brunswick--to identify a young person who was showing the indicators of being at risk, whether it was high amounts of discipline problems in school, abuse or neglect or a complicated file at home, or high absenteeism. Often it was identifying learners who don't do well in the traditional classroom. We know that often young people with a variety of needs are less likely to learn well by being told to sit still and learn in that classroom. This allowed them to get their high school equivalency through work experience, through having an individually designed education program, but also holding them accountable so that, if they don't participate, they're out of the program.
We were simply told that the federal government believes jurisdictionally that's not their problem, it's ours. And you know what? Look, we're looking at how we can fund that. If it's my problem as the minister of social services and Attorney General, okay, we'll find a way to do it. But don't then take the resources I need to run that program and spend them on something if you're not going to show me any evidence that I can keep people safer in New Brunswick by doing it.