Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, in December I was presented by the president and the chairperson with an options paper so that I would know what they were looking at. That options paper had multiple different directions that the board might choose to go on it. Following that meeting, the Department of Education, Culture and Employment sat down with the board to let them know what each of the different options would mean as far as potential costs that would arise or how that would come out of their MOU so that they completely understood that it wasn't, you know, just a one means the other.

Following that, in January I then learned, largely the same day -- well, the day before the rest of the House, what option the board of governors had chosen, and the very next morning that decision was made public. So I was not in a position to be able to work on a hybrid model; that process was not afforded to me. Thank you.