Thank you, Madam Chair. Basically because it was the least expensive way for us to get this sort of snapshot, but the same reason that we don't develop our own departmental examinations or develop our own individual curricula. We have to work with other jurisdictions. It is extremely expensive to develop something that would be normed to our population. An instrument that we could test our population would cost us millions of dollars to develop, and then we would then have to also incur the cost of setting up the marking.
This test, because it is being used by another jurisdiction, while it is imperfect, does offer us at least a rough indicator of how the system is performing in areas of literacy and numeracy. That was our object, was to get that rough indication for a relatively economic price. Thank you, Madam Chair.