Mr Garfield Dunlop (Simcoe North): I know this is the beginning of Education Week, and I'm very honoured today and very pleased that the grade 5 class of Ms McNeil and some parents are here. They're from Brechin Public School out in the eastern part of my riding. I really want to welcome them here, and I want the House to give them a warm round of applause.

Quite frankly, I wasn't to do this statement today, Mr Speaker; it was to be Mr Baird's. He missed coming in, so I wanted to take a moment and say that we asked a question yesterday to the Minister of Education on a very important issue that involves the lives of a lot of the young people here from Brechin Public School: the fact that there's a dispute between two school boards, the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and the Simcoe County District School Board, over where these young people may in fact attend school in the future. For many generations, the people from Carden and Dalton townships -- Ms Laurie Scott is the member for that particular area, Victoria-Haliburton-Brock. For many generations, the parents and grandparents of these young people have actually attended Simcoe county schools, and now there's a dispute about moving them to Trillium Lakelands in the future.

Quite frankly, I was pleased that the minister responded yesterday. We're working very hard -- the parents' groups, myself, Ms Scott and now the Minister of Education -- to try to resolve this issue. I hope that for the sake of putting students first in the province of Ontario, we can find a resolution so that these young people can attend the school of their choice in the future.