The funding reduction was taken from basic field grants, a cut of 14.8 percent.

Perhaps surprisingly, given the sector's initial reaction to the spending review and the scale of funding reductions required, local authorities have coped well so far.

Teachers complain that funding reductions make it harder to educate children who are hungry and neglected and come to school in midwinter without coats or socks.

Flew various second-line transports, inactivated as a result of funding reductions in 1957.

Today, federal agencies find that monitoring these internal forces is especially important, given the effects of funding reductions and reorganizations.

The funding reductions have had major impacts on many aspects of the Legal Services Society and legal aid in the province.

The legal community in British Columbia strongly supports legal aid services and continues to protest the funding reductions.

But the last $30 million in cuts, he said, would have to be made through mid-year funding reductions in school districts and high schools.

"It could be two teachers per school," he added, although he said some districts might find other ways to deal with the funding reduction.

"The reality is our options are very limited, given the magnitude of the federal government's funding reduction."