Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Madam Blais, for being here. I would love to speak with you about midwifery, particularly in the north in communities like Fort Albany, Attawapiskat and Moose Factory, and I hope we can speak at another time. Today I'm going to have to focus on the situation at Laurentian.
Mr. Haché, the bankruptcy protection act has been around since 1933 and, according to the experts I've spoken with, it has never been used on a public institution, and certainly not a university. One of the tools it's used for is to give breathing room to be able to restructure.
I'm interested in the decision that was made to fire 100 professors, cancel 58 undergrad courses and kill 11 postgraduate courses in the midst of the final week of classes. Why did you sign off on that date? Why did you not give the students a chance to finish their year?