Tuition fees have increased significantly with the arrival of more international students, so the core funding we get from the province is enough to cover our essential services. However, as my colleague Ms. Chouinard and I indicated, we really have to move away from an ad hoc funding model to a long-term funding model.
Under the circumstances, it's no secret that it's harder to find staff to deliver programs and take on projects. It's even harder when the projects last only a year or two. If we were guaranteed long-term funding, we could plan better, and it would be easier to recruit the staff needed to implement the programs.
One of the problems we had—