I'd like to thank our two witnesses.
My questions will be for Ms. Morgan. If I have any time remaining, I'll get back afterwards to the midwifery program.
I'd like to thank you, Mr. Fenske, for the work you have been doing. These are difficult times. People have been calling what happened on April 12, "Black Monday at Laurentian University". The situation is affecting the community and the university.
It was a bombshell. No one expected this and this is wrong.
I am going to focus on Ms. Morgan.
Thank you so much. I want to get a bit of an explanation. The midwifery program was set up—the tri-council of McMaster, Ryerson and Laurentian—about 28 or 30 years ago, and the intent was to focus on rural, indigenous and, obviously, the francophone aspect. Now we've completely blown that up. We're sending students back to southern Ontario, where Ryerson and McMaster are one hour apart. It doesn't make any sense. I want you to explain a bit about that.
Also, I read somewhere that Laurentian had an additional cost for the bilingual program of around $200,000 or so. From your experience, can you confirm what the additional cost was to Laurentian? Was the split in revenue one-third to each institution? Was Laurentian receiving any additional dollars for the francophone, indigenous and rural aspects?