Thank you, Madam Chair. The Member is correct. There is a growing desire to have schools as centres of the community. In many ways, they already function like that when communities use the school gyms for gathering places for feasts, when the libraries in schools are the public libraries. However, there is an acknowledgement that we can do more, and to that end, ECE has revamped its capital standards. Those are how we decide what gets put into the different communities from a technical standpoint, and those new standards include gyms for all schools, regardless of sizes. They include the option for early learning and childcare spaces in the schools.

We always work closely with communities. There are always a lot of consultations, and then the schools that we end up with are always reflective of the communities. We have taken the approach now of working even closer and listening to communities who want to create projects that are bigger than a school. Perhaps they include other aspects, other pieces of commune infrastructure, as well. While we have not gotten there yet, those are the kinds of projects we are working on right now in places like Colville Lake. Thank you.