February 18, 1997 Minister of Finance announces a 30% increase to the NLS budget for family literacy, workplace literacy, and support mechanisms.
June 1997 Liberals are re-elected Pierre Pettigrew, Minister of Human Resources Development
1997 National Literacy Secretariat no longer reports directly to the Minister with Special Responsibility for Literacy and is now under Minister of Human Resources Development.
August 1999 Jane Stewart, Minister of Human Resources Development
January 2000 The “Grants and Contributions Crisis” begins.
March 2000 Lessons Learned on Adult Literacy, Policies, Programmes, and Practices published by HRDC.
November 2000 Liberals re-elected

CASE STUDY PERIOD 3

Program Change (2001-2006)
2002 Second evaluation of the National Literacy Secretariat (The Governance Network); released in 2004.
2003 Increases made of $1.5 million a year for 3 years (later becomes ongoing) to the NLS for adult work-related literacy to be part of the Essential Skills and Workplace Literacy Initiative (ESWLI). NLS also received an additional $1.5 million for a total of $7.4 million over 5 years for family literacy, and for minority language communities. This was announced as part of the Official Languages Action Plan.