Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll be splitting my time with my colleague Mr. Jeneroux.
One observation that I've made throughout this process is what somebody once said to me, that the better the system you have, the more expensive that system will be. If we want better health care, it's going to be more expensive. I think Canada has one of the best education systems in the world, and we see that cost reflected in rising tuition rates and rising textbook rates. It seems that we're not willing to accept sub-par textbooks, and even in my time in university, textbooks were not just textbooks, but you had websites associated with them and CDs came with them. It's just amazing that there's so much more than what we were used to have in the past. That cost needs to be reflected.
Mr. McDonald, you mentioned that the education sector has higher inflation than other sectors. Can you explain what you think the causes are of that higher inflation in the education sector?