Mr. Speaker, I would like to address the question of my colleague about the financial penalty, the people who do not have the financial ability. We made some sacrifices in our family which meant almost no vacations. It meant driving old cars. In fact, I still have my 1959 Meteor. I do not drive it anymore. But it meant keeping a car four times as long. I am still driving my 1982 Chevy Suburban. We made those sacrifices because the money had to go to tuition.
I was on the board of the school I attended and we made the decision that in order to make it easier for children to attend our school, we would try to reduce the financial barriers. We set up a tuition plan so that for a family with more children the tuition rates were steeply reduced. As a matter of fact, if there happened to be a family with more than four children, after the fourth child's tuition was paid the rest were free. They were allowed into the so-called family plan.
Certainly that should not be necessary. It is a great hardship for these private schools to endure the costs when there is a very uneven playing field. That was our solution.