Citizenship and Immigration committee  This kind of piggybacks on what I had mentioned at the very end of my presentation, that the coordination between the province and the federal government is very important where there are different jurisdictional areas, because the learner or client does not really care who paid

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From my perspective, that helps on a macro level in terms of coordination between the agencies. It doesn't always necessarily help on the micro level of the individual learner or client.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's not a funding loss as much as the fact the costs have escalated and funding has remained at a static level.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Toronto District School Board is a large service provider in the city of Toronto, but is not the only service provider. There are a number of other program areas, including welcoming communities and newcomer services, so some of those programs have seen an increase. I think i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they are served, provided service and not discriminated in any way within the school board context.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This gets into a little bit of a jurisdictional issue, but we do find a lot of students who need social work. If not that, then perhaps case management and support are needed to navigate through all of the different services while they're in school. There are settlement workers i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the coming year, for example, we're going to be closing one location. Had we another million dollars, we'd be able to keep that going.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Or $604,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We usually work through our local office, so we will express to them the importance of this. Yet, at the same time, some of the measures that we take, if we can be more efficient with something, we've been more efficient. If there's a position we can leave unfilled, we leave it u

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't tell you exactly, but it's been awhile.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can speak about the LINC programming. If a person is illegal, they wouldn't qualify for the programming. They would be handled by the provincial funding, which is held by another department. Our department oversees the federally funded language instruction for newcomers to Ca