Thank you, Madam Chair. In the course of the next year, I'd be happy to accompany the Member on a tour of the facilities in his constituency and we'll endeavour to do that. Madam Chair, when the process of developing the capital plan was under way, as I said, when we looked at how much was going to be cut from the capital plan, we ranked projects that were ongoing as being the first priority. This was a project that had been approved and a negotiated contract had been approved for it. In making changes at that time, you wouldn't have the capacity, necessarily, to do the design work and move a school ahead into this fiscal year. It was felt that the best
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approach was to carry on with some of those projects that were slated for construction in 1996-97 and then take a look at ranking, by priority, new projects and how they got into the budget from this point in time. There may not have been an opportunity to provide a new school somewhere else by making any kind of change to this program. Thank you, Madam Chair.