Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I again would like to continue on as I had already started and which is to say a lot of what I've done in the last four years is something that I was doing intuitively but would like to actually see now put into place more formally. For example, the Fiscal Responsibility Policy and the Affirmative Action Policy, both are internal GNWT policy documents but we made it -- it was clear to us that in a consensus system, those types of reviews should actually go to Members for their input separately and independently so that we could actually incorporate their feedback at the front end, not just say here, we've done a review, and we have a new policy. And the feedback that I received from Members was significant in terms of improving the process of what was happening with that.
The budget process, of course I know I have spoken too many times, but it has evolved significantly over the last four years. It started off where there was a very formal letter exchange, but it evolved to a place where I was in front of committee, along with senior members of my team, on a regular basis. The conversations became more engaged. They became more involved. We were able to have dialogue that lasted throughout a budget Assembly -- a budget session, to reach an end point where the changes that were being made to the main estimates were reflective of priorities of the Assembly, not simply one by one but truly reflective of all of our priorities. So I'd like to look for ways that we could implement types of processes like that across all Ministers' offices.
So, for instance, what types of policy reviews do we have coming, what level of engagement should we be seeking, what is the schedule of review so that members of the Legislative Assembly know what's coming to them and then they can decide what level of involvement they may want. It certainly has come to me -- departments often make offers for technical briefings but are not necessarily always responded to by Members. So what barriers are there on their side so that Members can be involved when they want to be? Perhaps Members have individual interests, and they can sit down independently. Perhaps it's for committee. But there's ways to improve these pathways of communication meaningfully for all. Thank you.