Thank you very much to the witnesses for coming today. You've been very eloquent. I just wish half the Conservatives on this committee weren't missing, because I'm sure they would have learned from your testimony today.
I'd like to go to Mr. Tabachnick and Mr. Birnbaum to start, because in a very real sense what you're talking about is the choice available to parents. I think Mr. Rollason spoke to that earlier, that the parents who are in a dilemma where the government is refusing to give them the choices and the rights they need to have for their children, essentially by eliminating this program, those parents collectively won't have an opportunity to fight for those choices for their children.
Would that be an accurate assessment, that this takes away from parents actually being able to choose what's best for their kids through assuming their rights and reinforcing their rights?