Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to talk a little bit about École St. Joseph and the renovation project.

In prior years we approved $9.2 million, and I see that it’s off the books. It’s not included in the proposed Infrastructure Acquisition Plan. I have some issue with that.

We’ve talked a lot about our acquisition planning process and how that’s messed up. There’s a cabinet committee now struck to try to look into revamping that capital acquisition planning process. I think that’s a good thing. If there was ever a reason why, this is it. I feel quite strongly about this one. Because it’s one thing if our planning process is a mess, but when that mess impacts other people, that’s where I have a big issue with that. This just was not right.

I’ve met with the school board officials, and they were under one impression. Obviously it wasn’t the right impression, and there’s no money in ’08-09 for that school. I’m just curious to know when the department was going to let them know. The communication on this has just been terrible.

Again, that’s a question for the Minister. I’d like to know when they told them there was no money in ’08-’09. They had told them subsequently to that. Initially they went out and did the work. I think that’s part of what the $9.2 million was spent on: going out and doing the work that was needed to be done to look at the renovation project. They came back with a figure. I’m not going to get into the figures right now, but the figure was too high. The department comes back to them and says: “Well, you’ve got to do it for this much.” They go out, and they’re scurrying around trying to make the project fit into what the department said they had. They go out and do that work, and surprise, surprise: it’s out of the budget in ’08-09.

Maybe a question to the Minister on the communication side: how did they communicate that to school boards when they yanked projects out for a year?