Our main challenges are funding and recruitment.
First, it is hard to recruit students—it is a very female profession—because the tuition is $8,000 and the students have to invest two years of their life to earn close to minimum wage once they get their degree, perhaps a bit more if they are lucky. So recruitment is difficult. Promoting the profession is difficult.
Funding for the training programs is also a challenge. The funding comes from the province. For our regular program, we have multi-year funding. Since 2013, we have also had a workplace training program, but the funding is per cohort only. So every year we have to submit a new application to the provincial government to fund our spaces. Last year, for the cohort that started in September 2016, we received the funding in April 2017. This year, we have still not received our funding, and the end of the fiscal year is approaching.
We have to take a leap of faith, offer the program, and be willing to do so without funding. It is tough. We do not have...