Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. My name is Robert Haché and I am pleased to speak to you today from Laurentian University in Sudbury, in northeastern Ontario, located on the 1850 Robinson-Huron Treaty territory and on the traditional lands of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek and Wahnapitae first nation

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say in the first instance that it has indeed been very helpful. We're quite thankful to the government for allowing students to study online. We're also, I will add, thankful that the government has now approved students to come back to the country. It has worked very wel

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good morning, everyone. Aaniin. Good morning, I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me to participate today. The committee's work in examining critical issues such as women's health, support and care for certain groups of women, women's

Status of Women committee  Not really. I can't comment on the services that are used. I don't have the figures before me in terms of the distribution of visible minorities and so forth within the midwifery program.

Status of Women committee  This was an extremely difficult decision for Laurentian. Entering the process, and everything that has happened since we entered the process, was extremely difficult. We do absolutely recognize the impacts on communities and on individuals. None of this was done lightly. Very si

Status of Women committee  We've had many conversations with the Ministry of Colleges and Universities and with the Ministry of Health, which provides support for the program as well. The program, as you heard, is part of a consortium, and the steps that have been taken have been to close the programs at

Status of Women committee  Thank you. First let me indicate that the students who are in the program will be attending virtually in the fall, so they will not need to physically move to attend the program. In addition, all of the clinical placements that happen in the north will continue to happen in the

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. Students have been redistributed throughout the province of Ontario, which has a total of 90 spots for training midwives. Previously, these spots were distributed across the three institutions offering the program. The 30 positions assigned to Lauren

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the question. In effect, all students had a chance to finish their year. Let me start by saying that. Under the CCAA process, we had an initial stay of proceedings from February 1 to April 30. That was the length the court gave us to initiate the negot

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, but that is not correct. No teacher left the university before April 30. Most teachers—

Status of Women committee  They were told—

Status of Women committee  All students got to complete their year. The course information you're referring to is course information for next year. As I attempted to explain, we were required to do so because of the timeline of the court-imposed stay of proceedings. I will point out that all of the changes

Status of Women committee  The process for evaluating the courses that would be terminated started after February 1. It was a process that included representatives of the academic senate of the university, which met many, many times. The university provided data—financial data, enrolment data—on the progra

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure exactly what the question was, because I had some audio issues as well.

Status of Women committee  Simply, it was required that we have a balanced budget. At that point, Laurentian had no additional capacity to take on additional debt. We did work very hard prior to the pandemic to meet the projected budget of the year, but then with the overall.... We just simply had no mor