Thank you, Mr. Lightbound.
Obviously, because we are going to be called to vote in the House, I would not have a chance to speak during the second round of questions.
Thank you for being with us today, Mr. Blais and Mr. Champagne. I visited your school two years ago. I would ask you to thank the staff and the volunteers and parents for me, for all their work. They do an exceptional job.
Mr. Henry, I want to thank you for your service to Canada as well. That may be why you were one of the first in the country to receive our document. A big thank you too for your work in education.
I have several questions to ask, but I don't have a lot of time, unfortunately. I would like to focus on one point. You mentioned that the formula used for distributing funding among the 12 school boards is not equitable. I was a school board member for six years in the 2000s.
I would like you to talk a bit about section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We have heard here about what the federal Supreme Court could do to enable the federal government to work more with school boards rather than just with the provinces and territories. It seems that the provinces do not consult the school boards equitably.
Can you give us your recommendations for the federal government to be able to play a bigger and more direct role with the school boards?