Finance committee  For colleges specifically, yes.

Finance committee  I think we all need to come together for the good of the students who want to get the education, and find a way to make it work.

Finance committee  Our problem right now is that we haven't seen the details on where that $1 billion is going to flow, remembering that every time you give money to a provincial government there are machinations that go on and we have difficulty trying to figure out where the money went in the first place.

Finance committee  Obviously students see it from a different point of view than sometimes institutions do, but clearly some of the points you mentioned were purely university funds. The high-end research, we don't even get 1% of that money as colleges, so that doesn't have a great influence. We think there is a need for the federal government to get involved, certainly working with HRSDC and others.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm Bob Gillett, president of Algonquin College, in Ontario, but I'm also representing all colleges of Ontario today. I'd like to begin by thanking the committee for giving us this opportunity to present to you. We would like to also say how much we support the recent decision by the Honourable Jim Flaherty to set capital funding aside for post-secondary education.