Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, for the last two or three days, I've been trying to advise the honourable Member that is in fact the case. The honourable Member raised the concern yesterday about the certainty of funding, and the problem with uncertainty of funding is it causes the kinds of discussions that are going on in this House. Part of the formula discussions is that we wanted to create some discussion issue about certainty of funding. What requires further discussion is what happens in future to the residences, what happens to the residential program? I have not made any final determination as to whether or not those programs will, in fact, be disbanded.

The comments the honourable Member has made to me for the last couple of days are integral in concluding any final decisions. They're very important. We can't make a decision on closing matriculation programs if they're not being offered in the community high schools. As such, those have to be considered, and they're an invaluable part of the decision. I'm not going to make a decision in the absence of knowing that I'm not going to offer programs and services to the community.

Secondly, the boards are the responsible agent for deciding the programs that are to be offered to the high school students in the communities. They have to be involved.