Dr. Gerald Craddock:

Reference has been made to what was demonstrated in Portugal. We have heard that model mentioned many times. The Minister of Education from New Brunswick visited Ireland a number of years ago to speak about its system, and how it shut all of its special schools and integrated all of the children into mainstream education.

In terms of language, Canada and Finland have removed the word "special needs" and "special education" from all legislation. As we all know, language is very important. Instead, they refer to learning supports in education. That is the journey we need to take, as my colleague, Dr. Tamming, said, we are going in the wrong direction.