Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, those new capital standards are in place, and they are a public document. I am sure they are, yes, they're a public document. And so everyone can go have a look at them, and they will see that the biggest change that people will notice is that the schools include gyms for the most part. There was a time when, if your school had less than so many people you would not get a gym. And if your school was a certain size, you would get a gym of a certain size that people wouldn't really consider it to be a gym. It was too small to really play any sort of -- to prepare students I guess to play sports at a competitive level, which is what often people want. And so schools are often judged by their gyms. That's something that I think people know in the world of education. And the new capital standards have taken the step of including gyms in the schools to an extent that it was not done before. And it comes at great expense. There's no doubt about that. It adds significant costs to any school built, but it is something that we felt the territory needed. Thank you.
R.J. Simpson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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