text: "The case was brought by a public school board after it had to close a 42-student rural school only to find the Catholic school board opening a 26-student Catholic school in the same small town. The town is Theodore. In 2006, it had a population of 339. It does not have a Catholic church."
  
  For reasons that may be obvious to some, I find this paragraph troubling.  My question: 
  
  If both boards operate under the purview of the provincial government, how is it that the public school, assuming the validity of the authors statement, did not know or accessed or been presented with the knowledge that the Catholic School Board was opening a School in the same town with a less enrolment?