Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's certainly something that's come up as an issue that needs to be looked at. I'm aware that the way this whole thing has been characterized, particularly by parent advisory groups and others associated with YK No. 1, has been of one school board taking over another. I want to stress again what is driving my recommendation to YK No. 1 is the fact that they should not be mothballing a school, whether another school is leased to a group or not, it doesn't really matter, they have that much excess capacity that they could put probably an extra $300,000 into educating kids, rather than spending it on administration. It would require some reconfiguration of schools, but with the equivalent of 33 to 35 classrooms to spare in the system, they can do that without coming anywhere capacity or overcrowding. So that's what this is about. It's about whether or not we should continue, this government should continue to spend extensive public monies just to keep bricks and mortar open, or if we should ensure that there is some pressure put on the education bodies to put the money, first of all, into the classroom and into assisting kids to get a better education. That's our position.
Now if we have a construction project at the same time which would allow us to take advantage of space that isn't being used for anything else and put students in so we don't have to rent space like in an old grocery store or bring in some portables that would cost us money, since we paid for the facilities in the first place, we think we should be able to take advantage of them during that construction process. We've pointed out that there would not necessarily be any large amount of disruption, because one of the schools that is scheduled for renovation for YK No. 1 has to be shut down in order to be renovated. So it could be shut down two years earlier than planned and then when its renovation was ready to start, there wouldn't be any further disruption to YK No. 1 students. Mr. Speaker, I'd be happy to have any kind of meeting that it's going to take to get that message out and try and have some kind of rational discussion about the reasons for what we're proposing here. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.