Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I appreciate the questions and comments from my colleagues on post-secondary education, so I will pick up the baton here and focus on JK to 12 education.
So we see some significant reductions in JK to 12 education system services and student services. System services is reduced by about 25 percent -- actually both are, and student services. And then we see reductions in contributions to education authorities.
So my question is how will this affect students on the ground at the end of the day? And just to back up for a sec, I just want to point out, so earlier there was comments that because -- there was a focus on just reducing positions that were vacant or retirements, that that wouldn't impact programs. And so I don't think we can make an assumption that because someone's retiring and we're not replacing them, that doesn't impact the program. It doesn't affect a staff person in that we don't have to fire someone, for lack of a better term, but it will impact the program in that if we're letting someone retire and no one's replacing them, that, by definition, impacts something. So I just want us to be clear that just because we're not creating affected employees, that's not the same as not impacting programs. Anyway, but the question at hand here is about impacts to JK to 12 education in terms of those significant reductions. Thank you.