 Against all odds and against almost everyone's predictions including the predictions of some here in this room today and under Charles Jago's guidance we reached an agreement with the VCTF that will run to June 30th 2013 and so with the progress of our June agreement in mind today I am outlining two goals that will guide work I have asked Don McCrae and his team to lead over the next several months. Our first goal is long-term labor stability with teachers in British Columbia. Our second goal is to improve how government interacts and works with the VCTF. It's not easy for us to put the long history of labor issues behind us. There'll be skeptics on all sides but this is the single most important task that I can take on as education minister and a dad. I know that teachers are hard of our education system and that anything we can do to create longer-term labor peace will benefit students and schools. To be clear the focus on the bargaining process is to look at the how the parties bargain and not what they bargain. This is about taking a hard look at the collective bargaining process and see if there are systematic changes that can lead to better outcomes for all the parties involved. Think about the impact that long-term labor peace would have on our children and please work with us to make sure we can keep our education system not focused on arguments between adults instead keep our education system focused on the kids that we are all obligated to serve.