I believe one of the ways that we have worked very effectively with CNFS as a federal organization and the university as a provincially funded organization is through wonderful communication and looking at where the sources of funding are for a particular request. For example, if it were a student who was really struggling with something about a placement—and this comes up all the time, because they have to move and find a place to live and buy food and travel around, etc.—we do get provincial money to help with some of that. However, sometimes a student will have additional needs, and, if they are a francophone student, they could ask CNFS if they have funding available to support them. CNFS will first ask what they have already done, what they have already looked at. Then, if that student still needs to have additional support, CNFS will look at what is in their budget that can help.
We've seen that for financial support of students. We've seen that in the program. For example, recently we were looking for more textbooks in French. The challenge for professions right around the world is that most things get written in English, and we want students to have the opportunity to learn by reading the required materials in their first language.
We were able to get some funding and additional support from CNFS. Not only did they give us the money to make it happen, but they also found the right people to do the translation. This was an electronic book, so we also needed really good IT support. We needed people who did that IT support who were francophone and who could understand what it was that we really needed for the francophone students to use that textbook well.