Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the funding to boards is based on prior year's October 31st enrolment. So something that happens in the middle of a school year is typically not reflected in their funding. For instance, as I was mentioning to Mr. Barnabas a few minutes ago, enrolment growth up to eight per cent must be provided for from within by the board. So it's only if the enrolment grows by more than eight per cent that the board can come back to the department and ask for supplementary funding in that year.
The problem is, of course, if a board has made a commitment to provide a service throughout the school year and somebody moves to a different region, the board that's losing that student may not easily be able to transfer the resources. It's difficult to make the resources move any more quickly than what we can through the formula, based on the prior year's enrolment.
It's felt that, given the amount of money that is included in each board's budget for inclusive schooling, they should be able to react to situations that occur on a case-by-case basis because it doesn't happen very often. Something really costly doesn't seem to happen very often, in our experience. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.