(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just a short reply. Yesterday, the Minister of Finance gave us a very good statement and I appreciate his statement. He talked about the things that he wants to change and how the communities can be involved. It is not the first time I have heard someone talk like that. The government is always saying that they want to do this and that and change things in regards to finances.

From the time I first became a Member of the Legislative Assembly in 1975, there have been a lot of speeches about how money can be effectively used. Finance Ministers talk about this all the time saying that the communities have to be involved. If I could read along with the Minister of Finance all the Hansard reports, they all say the same things. I know, and I have seen, when the government is spending their money and when they give the money out to the contractors for building houses, and sewer pipes, and airports, you never know how they spend it. The government really does not know, you do not really see how they are spending the money that you give out for contracting. I use this as an example. The contractors doing work such as housing and pipes and whatever else in the community, they do not hire local people. They are always trying to look for people they can pay less to work for them, even though the transportation from the southern provinces will be very expensive. Once they get to the communities to do their contract work, they try to hire people that they can pay the least. There are people in the communities who are there and are not hired.

That is just an example and I think we all know that the contractors get hired from Newfoundland because Newfoundlanders can be paid just a little bit of money to go to work because there are no jobs in Newfoundland. When they hire those people from Newfoundland, they let them work for six months, they could call them northerners after six months.

For this reason, they do not mind paying for their airfare and their accommodation. The only thing they are thinking of is that as long as they can pay this individual as little as possible, that is all they care about.

Every year, when the budget address is being made, we hear really good things that the government is going to do and wants to do and saying that the communities have to be involved is what we hear every year during the budget session. If you cannot see what is really going on in the communities, as a government, the people that you hire as contractors do not do what you say that they do. When you are living right in the community, it is very tiring to have it happen over and over again. You did your budget address. It just seems that after you have done your budget address that is is over for you. If you are living right in the communities, it does not happen like that.

Mr. Speaker, I wanted to make this statement because the communities have to get more out of the funding that is spent by the government and I wanted to let the Members know about it. Like I said before, I will make my reply brief, and I would like to say thank you, Mr. Speaker.