Thank you, Mr. Chair. As the Minister has said, we do take our responsibilities around communications quite seriously. We did have a strategic communications plan around junior kindergarten specifically, and that included providing technical briefings to the media and engaging stakeholders as well within the education system and others.
One of the realities that we face, however, is that there are often several different speakers when it comes to communication, several different voices that can be heard, including those within the education authorities, and at times the messaging is not consistent between us in the Ministry and the education authorities because we're not always in agreement on how to structure and proceed with different programs. I think you're well aware of that, that tension that does exist.
Despite the fact that we work very hard behind the scenes with the superintendents and others within the education authorities to make sure that we do have a common understanding of funding, for example, for junior kindergarten, at the end of the day, despite our best efforts the Minister did, on junior kindergarten, for example, hold a meeting with the board chairs to make sure that there was a common understanding of the funding model.
You know, when you're talking about difficult subjects, sometimes everyone isn't on the same page at the same time. So we do have an intention to continue to work on that. For example, at the last Minister and chairs meeting the Minister raised that with board chairs, specifically communications, how we work better together, so that the system can be more cohesive and work together on communications issues. Thank you.