Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. To the motion. Mr. Hawkins.

I appreciate those numbers. I guess the difficulty that I have is we’re forcing these authorities that have been accustomed to the 16 to 1 or the 17.5 percent and making them adjust over a short period of time. I’m just wondering what time period the department is expecting. Is this all being enforced into one year, or are we slowly implementing them to get down to the 13 to 1 and the 15 percent that’s required by legislation?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Committee, page 5-13, activity summary, deputy minister’s office, operations expenditure summary, $89.632 million. Mr. Bromley.

Page 5-18, activity summary, fiscal policy, grants and contributions, and transfers, $38.6 million.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Page 5-17, activity summary, fiscal policy, operations expenditure summary, $40.129 million. Mr. Dolynny.

Go ahead, Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to follow up on a few questions about some of that funding. I’m not sure exactly where to ask my questions, so I thought I would ask in corporate management. It is about the pupil-teacher ratio and the fact that the department continues to say, because the pupil-teacher ratio, we are funding with a bunch of these activities, whether it is education renewal or junior kindergarten, from within.

How much are we over-funding them currently with pupil-teacher ratio? To use the 16 to one, how much have we actually been over-funding for the last how many years? How...

Ms. Bisaro.