Mr. Garry Toner:

I welcome everything the two previous speakers said. I know some people would could do with having more personal assistant hours. There may be a gap in the day when they are sitting at home with no one and are waiting for someone to come in. My situation is slightly different because I have students coming into me. Students see me working as a disability officer and see that I have personal assistants. I provide personal assistants for students in the same way they are provided for students in every other college. Students have academic personal assistants while they are in college but, unfortunately, when those academic personal assistants are gone, the students are left on their own. One particular student who is a wheelchair user recently came to me and asked how he could become independent and live independently like I do. I told him the process but, unfortunately, my fear is that he will not get enough hours to allow him to live independently. If he gets one to five hours per week, there is no way he could do that. That student, who has quite a severe physical disability, is doing great at college. I told him the process involved even though it is not my duty to do so but I am fearful he would only get the crumbs of service hours. What use would that be to him?