Finance committee  If you take the class size of between 16 and 20 students, we would need to offer enough additional classes. The cost would be pretty much faculty costs. The building is there. The curriculum's there. We're ready to go. It's basically saying we want to meet this need and get peopl

Finance committee  As quick math in my head, I would say 900 students and if you offered enough classes for 20 students per class, just do the math. That would be it.

Finance committee  I don't have the cost to offer the program. Again, it would be the instructors who would train the volunteers. We would have one instructor. It's called Homefront, and the ESL instructor would train volunteers who would do very basic literacy in the home with the mothers. Again,

Finance committee  Yes, it was cut by 8.5%, but in addition to that, the provincial government said they would like some goods in-kind to the tune of 17%. The LINC program ended up being cut by 25.5%.

Finance committee  Vancouver Community College did have a program where we trained ESL volunteer teachers to go into the home to work with moms who could not leave. Unfortunately, due to cuts, that program was eliminated. It was very effective, because for moms who have a number of children being a

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. My name is Karen Shortt. I'm president of the faculty association at Vancouver Community College. I represent the 650-plus faculty who teach at the college. I'm here today to request adequate funding for English-language training. At this m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, that's absolutely correct. We have an 8.5% cut.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct. We've been teaching English as a second language for over 40 years. We have the curriculum, we have the expertise, and we have the classrooms.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct. We have a pathways program that can be specific to the curriculum language needed for new immigrants. We offer combined skills. The students will go to school half the day to learn English language, the other half of the day they'll be learning whatever course t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. We are ready to go.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I understand that the government is working on this, but I leave you with this request: please restore funding to the level it was, and then add some more. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Karen Shortt, and I represent the 650 faculty who teach at Vancouver Community College. Our student population is approximately 17,000. Our faculty do the front-line English language teaching that is a direct result of this Parliament. Canada ha