Madam Speaker, there are several reasons for it. Partly it was the summer. Having education reform or something like that in the middle of July and August when many people are on holidays, travelling outside the province is difficult. We had the Cabot 500 celebrations where there were a tremendous amount of volunteers involved. Many were parents and teachers and there were school board activities.
I think the timing of it, having it on September 2, gave little or no input certainly made it difficult. The other part is that we are just so sick and tired of it.
It has been an ongoing debate in Newfoundland. I taught school in the early 1970s and it was there then and long before that. People just got tired of it. The people of Newfoundland are beginning to realize that this information age is going to pass us by if we are not careful. So let us get on with the reform.
A lot of people have just said that it is going to happen anyway. Let us just do it and have it over with.