Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have to agree with the Member that community control is the essential and most important item that we need to see in the future of education. I think that the new Education Act will move us significantly along the road towards that increased community control.

However, not every community is going to be able to have the resources to hire a superintendent or to hire perhaps the financial expertise. There will always be a need for some of these functions to be performed at a regional level in order to keep the costs economic. I think the new act, in fact, means that the boards are not going to be, as the Member put it, in control of what happens at the local level. The new act allows local education authorities to have significant control over education in the community. We will still need to provide some services at a regional level and I think the boards are perhaps the best way of doing that in at least the foreseeable future.

In terms of the opulence question, Mr. Chairman, I think that I will welcome the Member's comments if he sees plans that he feels are opulent. I would certainly enjoy an opportunity to discuss that with him on a case-by-case basis. Thank you.