Thank you very much.
I want thank all the witnesses here for their testimony.
Having been a teacher for a great number of years, for most of my life, I'm really hit by many of the points you have made. I've never bought into the argument for equality; I've always been the one to argue for equity. I think all of you put forward a very good case for equity. There is a need, on the part of governments, to make major investments so we don't have the kinds of results and statistics that you have pointed out.
I come from the beautiful province of British Columbia, in the education system, and all I can tell you is that after having been out of the education system for 10 years, out of the classroom, when I went back after 10 years what really upset me was that the learning conditions were worse for the students and they should have been a lot better. I'm talking specifically about our first nations students and also talking about other students who have extraordinary needs or additional needs in order to be successful in the system.
My first question is to Dawn.
Dawn, in terms of defining long-term funding, is your recommendation simply ongoing or did you mean more than that? Are you looking at five years or ten years or what was your...?