 After 2003, Ontario's secondary schools formally offered only four grades of schooling (Grades 9 to 12).However, Patrick Brady and Philip Allingham of Lakehead University, has argued that the provincial government's attempt to bring Ontario in line with the rest of the continent's 12 grades system has only been partially successful.They noted that the concept of students taking a fifth year of secondary school, colloquially known as the victory lap, was still viewed as a "provincial norm".