I also understand there was some significant technical difficulty, changes throughout the whole act if we had changed it. Just to reassure the board, you would have no problem if their correspondence was board of education and they just kept using that. It's a legal terminology which would be used, I suppose, in a legal sense, but nobody is going to give them a hard time if they continue to use board of education for a long time.

I can advise the honourable Member that it's certainly not our intention. I think it's a legal interpretation. As long as they recognize those factors and the responsibilities, nobody is going to be chasing after them.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That was the concern of our regional boards in the Keewatin, that they would have to change their names because of all the labels and things that would have to changed. If we were called district education authority, the same as Yellowknife, would we have as many superintendents for our region as the city? No, my question has been answered already.

Agreed.

---Agreed

Thank you. Under 90.(2), it says the DEA shall select one member for the DEC and one alternate. Two issues: can the district education authority select or appoint two members to a DEC?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In this particular case, the indication is that you can only have one representative who has the ability to vote in the divisional education council meetings. That's what it says. You can have other representatives. I think you may be getting into questioning about the chairmanship. Maybe I'm pre-empting the honourable Member. That is how it reads right now.

Thank you. No, chairmanship is different. I'm just wondering what's preventing us from allowing a district education authority ... I guess the act's not allowing us to do it, but why is this provision in there that doesn't allow a larger community to have two representatives on a divisional board?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. At this particular juncture, costs and efficiency of the functioning of the board are the greatest concerns we have. For every additional person we put on a board, the costs continue to go up. It's a factor in this particular situation.

That's not a consideration of this act, that's a consideration that the divisional board has to take into account. I'm just wondering if that's what's in the current act, is that what we're adopting? I'm just trying to make it clear why we're not allowing two representatives from a DEA to go on to the divisional councils.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What is happening here is that this is the matter with regard to when a member serves as a representative of a divisional education council. That is already in the existing legislation. What we are adding is the alternate, so that we can ensure that there is a representative on the divisional education council in the

absence of members who are already there. That's what we are doing in this particular clause.

The part about the alternate representative. Currently, alternate representatives are not allowed to vote at divisional council meetings. Does this now allow them the right to vote at divisional council meetings?