Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don’t think most MLAs will remember this fact, except maybe Mrs. Groenewegen, that when we got here in the 13th Assembly there was a door

between Cabinet and the Regular Members that had an alarm on it. Every time it was opened it would ring so that you would know either that there was a Regular Member on the Ministers’ floor or that there was a Minister in the hall, and be careful.

One of the first things the 13th Assembly did was

take that door down. But sometimes it has seemed over these last four Assemblies that there has been an invisible door, and what we have to do is we have to collectively agree that we are going to work together, that we are really on the same side. This is consensus government. That we structure our committees, both in Cabinet and with the Regular Members, so that they link and are compatible. That we have a commitment by all of us, Ministers and Regular Members, that those hallways go both ways. That we take the time to spend time in the hallways.

We’re a small group of people. We are easy to get a hold of. You have to have that arrangement, that collegial arrangement. I’m a big fan of 6:30, seven o’clock in the morning breakfast meetings with anybody who wants to come to sort out those types of things, and we have to have that link that we are on the same side. We know we have tough decisions and we have to make those structures compatible.

As Minister McLeod indicated, we have the protocols. Those are only as good as the paper that they’re written on and they’re only as good as we make them. So we have to commit, as I am here today to commit that I will continue to do and be as cooperative, inclusive and collaborative as I have been and have tried to be for the last 16 years. That’s the only way forward in consensus government. Thank you.