Mr. Anderson: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Rocky View school division and especially the city of Airdrie are at a crisis point with regard to school infrastructure. Airdrie students are holding math classes in the library, the gym, and in some instances in the hall­ways. Trustees are even considering busing kids into soon-to-be­closed inner-city Calgary schools. The division is now begging for $5 million for 20 new portables to make a secondary temporary portable school in Airdrie. To the Education minister: would you please reallocate just one of the 32 newly announced P3 schools to Airdrie, the fastest growing city in the province?

Mr. Hancock: Mr. Speaker, with respect to the ASAP program, that's a process that takes a significant amount of time to put together. It is at its final stages, and announcements will be made soon. The school division that the hon. member has referred to has a school in that project. Their top priority school is going to be built at Langdon, as they asked.

Mr. Anderson: That is completely out of touch with reality. You need to get your facts straight.

Given that since 2005 Edmonton public has decreased in student population by 1,000 yet has received 10 new schools and given that during that same time Calgary received six new Catholic schools yet their Catholic student population went down by 700 students, why wouldn't Airdrie get another school when their student population has risen by 1,500 students since 2005, yet they've only gotten one public and one Catholic . . .

The Speaker: The hon. minister. [interjection] The hon. minister has the floor.

Mr. Hancock: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There's a very complex process of determining priorities for building schools. Unfortu­nately, in this year I didn't have additional capital dollars to build new schools. Quite frankly, if we had followed that member's advice, we would have even taken the capital building program and stretched it out over a couple of more years, and it would be even longer before he got schools.

Mr. Anderson: Thirty-two schools if they're put in the right place: that's what you need. Thirty-two schools in the right place.

Given that Rocky View is projected to add 3,000 additional students in the next three years, most of them in Airdrie, and given that Airdrie's projected population will be 70,000 people by 2025, will the minister commit to come to the table with the local Rocky View trustees to discuss a short-term and long-term strategy for solving what will shortly become an emergency if you don't take action?

Mr. Hancock: Mr. Speaker, finally, a reasonable question. Absolutely. That's my job, to work with Rocky View and work with every other school board to try to deal with the issues that they have. In fact, there are solutions for Rocky View that we're working on, and I believe that we'll be able to accomplish some great progress in that area. There is no question that there are urgencies across the province with respect to school populations, but that does not decry the need for the ASAP 1 and ASAP 2 schools that have been built. It's not pitting one against the other; it's dealing with all of them.