Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m always entertained by growing up stories by Member Dolynny. They’re quite entertaining by all means.

I think the real fundamental problem here, and I think Member Dolynny touched upon it, is about the rules here, and certainly the roles and responsibilities are the issues. Frankly, I welcome sponsorship and we just have to have it under what we believe is our choice and our guidelines, and I think, fundamentally, that’s the problem here. Some of us are accepting things for the unknown.

If we did not consider this opportunity, which is one, you know, I think it would be a mistake not to welcome. The problem is we have to look at how

many things we would have lost. There was a gymnasium I’ve been into not that long ago, the score board was sponsored. There are jerseys for sports teams; they sponsor music festivals. I mean, I believe that the credit is certainly and rightly deserved upon the corporation that steps forward.

A lot of things really wouldn’t get off the ground without sponsorship. I was at a sporting event the other day and I think it’s NT Power Corporation. I made sure that they got extra acknowledgement for their contribution to the athletes and opportunities that they helped create. Now, I’d hate to think that my power rates would need to go up for them to sponsor more, but the fact is that some of these events just don’t happen without help.

So I guess the question really here is, I sort of poked away at to iPad or not to iPad. Frankly, that’s it. Will there be iPads if we delete this? That will delete the line item, but will it delete the iPad and the opportunity it creates? Frankly, I think that that would take away that learning environment and opportunity.

I hear Mr. Bromley’s point about the messaging and whatnot, and I’ve made note of it myself on a few occasions about we have to be responsible about the right types of atmosphere, and furthermore, I was trying to get at the fact that no one seemed to want to answer who is paying for this logo issue. Where I was going with that is, frankly, I want to ensure that if somebody is sponsoring it and they want their name on it, then they should be paying for that piece. That’s where I was going with that. I wasn’t trying to trip government up this time. Frankly, it was just about them taking full responsibility. If they’re going to have their logo on it and they’re going to supply it, then once agreed upon by our rules, that they pay for their own logo, not the government. That’s all I was worried about.

So, fairly and frankly, I worry about the impacts. Can the kids get along without these, or can the families get along? Well, they’ll continue what they’re doing, and in Mr. Dolynny’s words, I mean, they’ll be continuing to play with yesterday’s technology. Mine happen to be not as fancy a stick or a block of wood as his maybe, but I don’t think it’s fair to hold other kids back with what really is modern day technology. By supporting this, it worries me about the messaging we’re sending to corporate opportunities.

Not every company out there should be thrown under the guise of evildoers or whatnot, or trying to play a quick one on the tax guy by saying, well geez, I’ll help you with $2 here, but don’t tax me $100 behind my back. I don’t believe that’s the case. If we have a taxation problem, and I’ve said this and I will continue to say this, then let’s work on the taxation problem, period. Okay, let’s talk about the taxation problem, let’s talk about our revenue problem, that’s it, but they don’t have to do this.

That’s the something we’re forgetting here, is they don’t have to do it and they’re doing it. I thank them for that and I’m going to finish off by saying I try to think corporations, every time they step to the plate and they pick up, because the expectation in government time after time after time is to do everything. Frankly, we cannot do everything and I’m enjoying every moment of saying this because it’s so important. We just can’t do everything.

So I thank them for their contribution. My only concerns are about the responsibility of this, the ownership of this and, of course, fair and reasonable responsible guidelines for labeling. That’s all, Mr. Chairman.