That's all right.
Well, I wanted to say, again, that we have some idea of what the impact of these cuts means to our people. But even when we're shutting down, we have hope. We have hope that perhaps this decision might even be reversed. Maybe that's a faint hope, because it doesn't seem to make any sense at all. It doesn't make any sense for Guelph. It doesn't make any sense for our people.
Of course, I've heard things from government representatives here about statistics for Ontario, but our students, our friends, are not statistics, and they don't understand that argument, which we duly presented to them, as we should. They haven't ceased to exist. They're still here. They're people with needs, and they are very important, as we always tell them.
When we teach LINC, we don't just teach English language. We teach about building a country. We teach about the history of Canada as a nation of immigrants. We teach them the value that they have for us as a country. And we feel like we're betraying them, in this case. They feel betrayed, and they have a right to feel betrayed.
I know that many of them are going home, because many of them feel that in the year to come, they'll have nothing in this whole adjustment process, if it can even be achieved at all.
It's very sad that this should happen. I don't want to be confrontational here, but I feel very strongly about this. I haven't mentioned, of course, the impact it has on teachers in this situation with the cutbacks all over Ontario. We have people who have been living in the province all their lives who have really been themselves traumatized about trying to find work where the job situation is pretty perilous now for LINC teachers--not to mention the coordinators.
This has an impact on a lot of people, and it will certainly have an impact on the city of Guelph. Guelph is well known, I think, in general as one of the five or six best cities to live in in Canada. It's been advertised that way, and it's true. But I can say now that with this loss of services to immigrants, it must be one of the worst places for immigrants to settle in, because--