Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for the three Members of our Assembly who have put their names forward for Premier today. I thank you for doing that.
Mr. Chairman, we call this consensus government, and the first thing we do today will be elect a Speaker, a Premier and six Cabinet Ministers. They will go off to a room, called the Cabinet room, on their own. The other Regular Members will go off to a room and they will be called the Priorities and Planning committee.
Each one of us is elected here as 19 Members. Various perspectives, all different backgrounds, different experience. Like Mr. Miltenberger, I’ve been here 16 years. The people out there are calling for reform. If this is truly consensus government, what would the candidates for Premier see as a forum or a mechanism to get the 19 of us more in the room talking about issues so that we do not have initiatives come forward after much money and much effort and preparation and put into them where there was not early buy-in and then ultimately these things are voted down on the floor of the House? That’s the kind of waste that I would like to avoid. How can we work more closely together as 19? How can we bring more consensus to the system? Thank you.