May 2005 Belinda Stronach, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development
Summer 2005 Minister Bradshaw holds consultations on literacy across the country and appoints an Advisory Committee on Literacy and Essential Skills.
November 2005 Towards a Fully Literate Canada-Achieving National Goals through a Comprehensive Pan-Canadian Literacy Strategy, the report of Minister Bradshaw’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Literacy and Essential Skills. The advisory committee was composed of 19 representatives from the learning, business, labour, voluntary, Aboriginal, and francophone literacy communities.
January 2006 Conservatives form government
February 2006 Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development
February 2006 National Literacy Secretariat now part of Human Resources and Social Development Canada
March 23, 2006 Treasury Board approved the amalgamation of the Office of Learning Technologies, the Learning Initiatives Program and the National Literacy Program. Now known as the Adult Learning, Literacy and Essential Skills Program (ALLESP). This becomes effectives April 1, 2006.
August 2006 The first Call for Proposals is launched under the new ALLESP
September 2006 The ALLESP is now officially administered by the National Office of Literacy and Learning.
September 25, 2006 Minister of Finance and President of the Treasury Board cut NLS funding by $17.7 million which represents the federal-provincial-territorial partnership funding stream that supported community-based literacy projects. ALLESP funds will now be used for projects dealing with literacy activities of national interest.