Thanks to the Minister. I appreciate the indication of timing. It’s good to hear that the directive would be included as part of the review.

I have another question with regard to schools, particularly high schools and high school curriculum and the supports for students in high school. I spoke to this earlier about the need for schools that are providing high school curriculum to students need to have somebody who does help those students with counselling, particularly counselling relative to courses and making sure they’re taking the right courses and classes to get them where they want to go beyond high school.

I’ve learned since we originally talked about this, that in smaller schools quite often it’s the principal who does take on the counselling duties. It’s sort of one of the things that is added on to the principal’s many other duties. I also want to say that it is quite a specialized job. If students are going into a post-secondary institution, there are extremely narrow requirements sometimes and I wonder whether or not the department provides any training for principals who happen to take on the role of a counsellor or if it’s somebody else who is taking on the role of counsellor for the school in addition to their other duties. I suspect there’s probably not money set aside for it, but I would like to know from the Minister if there is any thought given to the need to provide training for school counsellors, guidance counsellors, career counsellors within the department’s thinking.