thank you a speaker many families and groups took buses to assemble here outside of Queens Park this afternoon they brought attention to a situation affecting people from all over Ontario including my home riding of Nipissing school closures have devastating impacts in our communities and hurt the education of our youth they decrease the overall quality and access to proper education in Ontario the government's recently revised pupil accommodation review guideline is clearly flawed and needs to be immediately rewritten to accommodate smaller communities in Ontario last month the Ontario PC party brought forward a motion to end the closures being carried out under these new guidelines but instead the government chose not to listen and voted us down they continue to try to balance their books on the backs of students the closure of these schools is a short-term money-saving move that in the end does nothing but disenfranchise our young men and women therefore I'm calling again on the government to put an end to these closures and immediately enact a moratorium on school closures throughout Ontario speaker if they don't in one year one month and 11 days Patrick Brown and the PC Party will absolutely