Mahsi, Mr. Chairman. This particular area has been brought up even at the ASA forum and early childhood development discussions, having guidance counsellors. Using previous experience has been very successful, why don’t we have that anymore.
The funding that we contribute to the school boards, it’s at their discretion if they want to hire a guidance counsellor, per se. At the same time, we are in discussion or will be in discussion with the school board, as well, that there is a great need to enter into discussions with the school board on particular guidance counselling.
The Member alluded to maybe a half-time position, per se. Those types of discussions we’re currently having because we are in the process of developing implementation plans for ASA. ASA, when we were going around, we heard that same topic, a lack of guidance counsellors in the schools. There are also students who are in the process of completing a career action plan in Grade 9 that is reviewed annually. This is just going beyond that. A position into the regions. We will be discussing this with the school boards and how we can best rectify the situation to deal with those educational awareness with the parents and the students, the program they should be taking.