Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If the building isn't kept clean enough, the public health officer will close it. If we don't have a counsellor, the public health officer doesn't close it. So in some respects a custodian is more important than the other.

The formula, Mr. Chairman, reflects what school superintendents have told us they need to see. They are the ones who are involved in helping determine what the formula looks like. The formula is also not a prescription. For instance, in Norman Wells, they chose to have a full-time school counsellor and they had the flexibility to do that. They chose to move that money from some other

place in order to be able to accomplish that. I doubt that you'll find any formula that is perfect, but the formula itself is reviewed by the superintendents and by the department in concert with them every single year and there are changes made to it every year to reflect what comes forward from the superintendents. What you have right now is a compromise based on what we've heard from superintendents from the north of the Territories to the south.