I'll keep them brief. Mr. Chairman, I know the amalgamation thing is a major area. What I am trying to say is that the community control or community empowerment that you spoke about comes directly from the community itself with each individual community education council. Having an overseeing board is an antiquated way of running education systems. As we know, in other jurisdictions in the

country, those are being eliminated and downsized. Putting money into the board level, as pointed out in the original NIC report, takes money out of program delivery.

On the opulent side of things, Mr. Chairman, my point is not that we're building schools without windows. My point is that when you go into a school or any institution of the government that we are building and see knotty pine furniture, skylights and so on and so forth, I don't think we can afford those in these fiscal times, and that's the opulence that I'm talking about. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.